Fountain Archive

For each publication and pages Afif normally makes only one piece for the Fountain Archives, which is created as a work of art.

But they are treated as special objects as they are doubled in order to testify of a historical echo, mark a mise en abyme.

[3] In 2013 a group of 101 Fountain Archives were shown in the exhibition “The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future” based in the Museum Kurhaus Kleve.

Referring to the presentation a first text, by the art historic Valentina Vlasic, about the Fountain Archive was published in the exhibition catalogue.

[6] The German art historian Eva Huttenlauch named Marcel Duchamp as Afif’s guiding star, he looked up as his ideal self.

[7] The Austrian art historian Valentina Vlasic termed Afif’s Fountain Archive as a repetition of the key-moment of the ready-made, the fundamental act of selecting which just as it did at that time for Duchamp, represents a complete artistic achievement.

As a charming witticism, Vlasic predicated that there is in addition the fact that Afif leads Duchamp’s Fountain in a new way back into the museum, a site it had to leave about one hundred years ago through being excluded from the exhibition.

After “R.Mutt“ or Marcel Duchamp Filipovic sees in Afif another person which adopts the white urinal and also conducts the construction of an icon.