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The Source Is / Källan Är

Örebro University Hospital Campus, Sweden 2017

Commissioner
Public Art Agency Sweden (Statens Konstråd)

Rainbow-laminated glass, stainless steel mechanical structure, programmed water
Permanent public installation

The installation consists of four monumental laminated glass panels whose slow rotation interacts with a water fountain. As the panels move, the foil refracts incoming light into shifting spectrums of color.
The fountain operates at irregular intervals, and the sun’s path changes with seasons and weather. Together, these variables create a continuously transforming environment where time, light, material, movement, and flow converge.
Color is treated not as surface, but as a physical and temporal phenomenon.

Peter Hagdahl, Curator, Public Art Agency Sweden

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