The Fountain of the Amazons (2022) is a sculpture that presents a vision of an exclusively female future world achieved through contraceptives. The endocrine disruptors in birth control pills trigger bodies to produce high levels of estrogen and progesterone preventing ovulation. When they leave the body through urine, they continue to work causing significant increases in female fish populations and possibly affecting humans too. Through its references and forms, the sculpture echoes real life issues of pharmaceutical pollution, but also historical ideas of a matriarchal world.
Haseeb Ahmed developed three artworks (Your Urine ; The Fountain of the Amazons ; A Fountain of Eternal Youth) during a S+T+ARTS-residency hosted by GLUON and Luca School of the Arts, and in partnership with a local support network (Inopsys, Pollet Water Group, VITO, VLAKWA, Pharma.be, Surplace, Capture-UGhent). All three works are about pollution in water caused by pharmaceuticals. Haseeb Ahmed is a research-based artist. Originally from the US, he lives and works in Brussels. He produces objects, site-specific installations, films, and writes for various publications. Often working collaboratively Haseeb integrates methodologies from the hard sciences into his art production.
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