When creating the OBJECT collection, Polish artist and maker Anna Bera was searching. Searching for a place where an object suddenly appears without justification, but whose existence is indisputable. The series was on display during the 19th edition of Collect in London as part of the Collect Open exhibition, the international fair’s platform for pioneering, thought-provoking craft installations by individual artists.
At Collect Open, Bera debuted the latest addition to OBJECT: a 2.6-meter tall sculpture, hand-carved from sycamore wood with a mirror made of polished steel. Its design, like the rest of the collection’s utility objects – the form of which does not reveal the functionality – plays with form. OBJECT is full of sculptures that may perform the function of mirrors, but then again may not. You may view it as something else entirely. This curiosity of function doesn’t make the pieces any less legitimate, even if all they do is simply exist.
mirror OBJECT CD N.2
mirror OBJECT CD N.2
mirror OBJECT CD N.2, detail
mirror OBJECT CD N.24
mirror OBJECT CD N.24, detail
mirror OBJECT CD N.24, detail
mirror OBJECT CD N.16
Anna Bera with mirror OBJECT CD N.16
mirror OBJECT CD N.16, detail
mirror OBJECT CD N.29
mirror OBJECT CD N.29
mirror OBJECT CD N.29, detail
mirror OBJECT CD N.30
mirror OBJECT CD N.30
mirror OBJECT CD N.1
mirror OBJECT CD N.1, detail
collection OBJECT
To learn more about Object, visit craftscouncil.org.uk.
Photos by Emilia Oksentowicz.
