Day 9 is the day of revival, recycling, and rebirth.
Icelandic artist Þórður Hans Baldursson revisits the world's functional objects and finds in them an unexpected generosity.

Fountain springs from thoughts on the affordability of objects — a gasoline feeding hose repurposed to spring clean water, its original function reversed, its meaning renewed. The gesture is in quiet dialogue with Duchamp's Fountain: not a provocation but a resourcefulness. Where Duchamp displaced the object to refuse, Þórður displaces it to regenerate. The same logic, turned toward life.

The Peace Tower carries Yoko Ono's Imagine Peace Tower — that beam of light rising from Viðey Island into the Icelandic night, dedicated to John Lennon, sent upward every year as a message that refuses to stop love — and brings it into textile. The monumental made intimate. The permanent made by hand. Light that can be touched.

Que/Cue — a car washing brush that responds to music, spinning, offering cleaning — finds in the most mundane of objects a ritual of renewal. The brush turns. The music plays. What it offers is not just cleanliness but the possibility of starting again.

In times of crisis, these works continue to shine a creative light of possibilities on the future. Objects do not have to remain what they were made to be. Neither do we.

Revival is not return to what was. It is the discovery that what seemed used up still holds life — waiting for a shifted viewpoint, a new context, a reason to spin again.

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