Jenine Marsh: How to Fulfill a Wish
6 December 2025 to 5 April 2026
Curated by Darryn Doull
KWAG is thrilled to present this showcase of our newest acquisition – a series of three sculptures by Jenine Marsh collectively titled How to Fulfill a Wish. As author Angel Callander writes, “these fountains ask questions about ideas of utopia and how utopianism has changed over time. As a fanciful concept of something that has never existed, utopianism is a tempting, completely elusive paradox in a global society of untold abundance, but whose foremost output seems to be misery. Utopia occupies an ineffable form of a problem where no solution is historically available.”
In this work, Marsh gives viewers an exercise in the powers of wish-fulfillment and construction, continuing her thinking through themes of exchange, social engineering, public space and sculptural intervention. As a historically public gathering place, the fountain is a device that converges on a society’s penchant for intertwined beauty and function. With its roots in basic social nourishment, and consideration the immense changes to public space over centuries, it is a particularly generative symbol for a utopic poetic. It remains unclear, though, if these fountains were ever finished. Are they covered for repair or inclement weather? Were they ever finished and turned on in the first place? Is this a ruin of a past agora, or a frustrated hope for an unrealized civic square?
Acquisition supported by the Women for Women’s Art (WWA). 
Images:
Artwork courtesy of Jenine Marsh and Cooper Cole Gallery, photography by LF Documentation.
