When making the OBJECT assortment, Polish artist and maker Anna Bera was looking. Searching for a spot the place an object instantly seems with out justification, however whose existence is past any doubt. The collection was proven through the nineteenth version of Acquire in London as a part of the Acquire opening exhibition, the worldwide truthful platform for groundbreaking, thought-provoking craft installations by particular person artists.
Throughout Acquire Open, Bera debuted the newest addition to OBJECT: a 2.6-meter excessive sculpture, hand-carved from sycamore wooden with a elegant metal mirror. The design, like the remainder of the utensils within the assortment – the form of which doesn’t betray the performance – performs with kind. OBJECT is filled with sculptures that may fulfill the perform of a mirror, however then once more can not. You possibly can see it as one thing utterly completely different. This curiosity about perform does not make the items any much less legit, even when they simply exist.
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Anna Bera with mirror OBJECT CD N.16
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For extra info on Object, go to craftscouncil.org.uk.
Photographs by Emilia Oksentowicz.
