​Zelene Jiang Schlosberg

I want to be a machine. I want to be a fountain.

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Since 2021, antennaed figures have appeared throughout my work, moving between water, land, sky, and constructed spaces. In 2026, these ongoing explorations crystallized into Fountain Worlds—a concept that now consciously guides my practice.

 

Through canvas cutout relief painting and sculpture, I explore the body as a site of perception, transformation, and exchange with its surroundings. Human, animal, and mechanical forms meet in worlds where bodies do more than inhabit space: they help bring it into being. This evolving body of work gives a more deliberate shape to questions and intuitions that have accompanied my practice for years.

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This selection brings together earlier works that anticipate Fountain Worlds and new works developed under this guiding concept.