Stone

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Northern Ireland Office, 1 Horse Guards Road

Stone presents a drinking fountain contained within a block of shimmering blue resin. It replicates the fountains once installed at Chariots, a well known gay sauna in London, which had to close its flagship branch in Shoreditch after almost 20 years of operation, to make way for a luxury hotel development. 

Prem Sahib’s work merges ideas of personal and public spaces, sexuality and desire. Along with reproducing the drinking fountain from Chariots, Sahib also salvaged twelve of the original lockers from the sauna which he presents as sculptures. Together this body of work highlight the importance of preserving safe spaces for marginalised communities to express themselves.

Places

Subjects

conceptual art, drinking fountain

Materials & Techniques

resin, sculpture (as object name), wall-mounted sculpture, steel drinking fountain

Artist

Prem Sahib (1982 - )

Title

Stone

Edition

A/P

Date

2017

Medium

Steel drinking fountain and resin

Dimensions

height: 23 cm, width: 38.5 cm, depth: 39.5 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Southard Reid, December 2017

Provenance

Southard Reid Ltd; purchased by GAC 2017

GAC number

18742