Frieze London in Regent’s Park opens today! Presenting a solo by Tomas Díaz Cedeño titled ‘Wishing well, dream of permanence.’ 📍Booth IN4 📍 Come say hi! For inquiries please email [email protected] Making a wish is the fantasy of control over the uncontrollable. Control over nature, over bodies, over the elements, over the future. We tell each other stories and invent rituals. We project desire and colonize the future, the myth of reason is on our side. Make a wish fountains are part of popular culture. A cultural vestige symbolizing offering or payment to the gods for the enormous privilege of finding drinking water. In the future, water used for entertainment or decoration will probably be seen as a characteristic waste of the brutality, ostentation, and savagery of a previous time. The fountain installation that comprises this presentation is made up of several bronze sculptures: butterflies, moths, axolotls, and snakes. Animals and insects that share physical characteristics of transformation or metamorphosis. These sculptures are found around, and inside reutilized plastic industrial containers filled with water. Some of the sculptures release water by being connected to pumps inside the plastic tanks. These pumps are also plugged into the electrical current through a sculpture that works as an electrical multi-plug outlet mounted on the wall. On the walls, there are some reliefs in cast aluminum recovered from stolen auto parts and abandoned buildings—such ways of obtaining materials are characteristic of the artist’s material environment. For Diaz Cedeño, these processes represent contemporary dynamics that define the relationship between labor, body, and landscape. #tomasdiazcedeno #friezelondon @friezeofficial @tomasdiazcedeno