Vaginal Mirror
Published 2008.06.15
"My works emanate from a fascination of sterile, clinical environments and industrial sanitary designs. The shapes, indicated functions and perfect, shiny surfaces of my objects provide clear references to such environments and designs.
A specific function is the starting point of each object, although the intention is not for them to be put into production. They are made with irony and humour to arouse curiosity about something as common as the bathroom and its elements.
I strive to obtain such resemblance between my one-off objects and industrially mass-produced sanitary products that the viewer becomes unsure which category they actually belong to. By basing my works on basic functions in the bathroom the objects become very recognisable to the viewer – and then again not.
In this way, my works operate in the borderland between industrial design and fine arts, which in my opinion is one of the greatest strengths of crafts: the freedom to not necessarily be functional but to question and discuss function and design. This is an integral part of the ceramic tradition."
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