The title for Karen’s new artwork is derived from Foucault’s description of mirrors as heterotopia; ‘in the mirror I see myself there where I am not, in an unreal, virtual space that opens up behind the surface.’

During this pandemic a new heterotopia has been created, Zoom, in which we all meet. Hold - there where I am not created from cast polished grey glass, references the historic use of mirrors for scrying, new virtual meeting places and feelings of comfort and isolation created during the pandemic.

'in the mirror I see myself there where I am not, in a unreal, virtual space that opens up behind the surface.' Foucault, Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias.

Cast grey glass

H12.5 x W25 x D25cm

10.3kg