She later worked on a commission for the Tate Modern where she erected a four-tier fountain — meant to represent her own version of the Queen Victoria Memorial that lives in front of Buckingham Palace. That work, “Fons Americanus” (“Fountain of America”), depicts the gory origins of the modern world’s wealth — colonial figures and tormented Africans — as supported by the British Empire. Into this chaos she incorporates a young boy submerged in a pool of water, his head barely lifted abov
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