Roman Ondak Dripping Tap, 2016

Dripping Tap is a wall-mounted installation consisting of a sink bracket, a metal ball chain and a brass water tap.

The positioning of the bracket and the tap creates a visual cognitive paradox. The sink bracket is attached to the wall, but upside down, seemingly imitating the shape of water taps. The metal chain is attached to its end and let to hang freely, creating an association of the water flow. The brass tap hangs on the ball chain, as it were a drip of liquid, falling down into an absent sink (which at some point the above bracket may have held).

Dripping Tap can be understood both as a tautology and a linguistic pun. A dripping tap is normally a tap that does not hold water well enough, in the case of Ondak's work the tap is "dripping" itself.