In 2011, Zilvinas Kempinas created a stand-alone sculpture made of strands of magnetic tape vigorously propelled by the force of an industrial fan. The fan is placed face down in the centre of a circle. Since air can only escape from the sides of the fan’s round, metallic frame, it is thrust outwards by the spinning blades, making lengths of black magnetic filament flutter and sway outwards toward the edge of a ring – like waves crashing against a shoreline, or swells of water ebbing and flowing against a barrier. A sculpture in a “non-traditional” sense, with its random transformation of magnetic tape changing its physical form, transcending the material and the piece itself into a fourth dimension that portrays a sense of time and movement in space.

In this exhibition, Kempinas amplifies the irregular oscillations of the magnetic tape into the installation Fountains, using an ensemble of fans. He treats each entity as a unique variable, and iterates it to manifest an identical reality. It is a universe with apparent likenesses that alter themselves in time and space.