Janette Laverrière
Janette Laverrière
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Victor Hugo

2001
Painted rosewood, mirror
47.5 × 106 × 8 cm
Edition of 6

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Janette Laverrière
Janette Laverrière

Victor Hugo, 2001
at Duddell's, Hong Kong

⟵ Victor Hugo, 2001
at Silberkuppe, Berlin

Victor Hugo, 2001
at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis ⟶

Janette Laverrière

Evocations

Evocations is a series of sculptural mirror objects that Laverrière begun in 1989, when she stopped accepting commissions and instead adopted a new credo, "It's useful to have useless things," that would guide her for the rest of her life. Seemingly useless as mirrors because of their convex and concave forms, elaborated frames, and their distortion of reality, the objects appear more like art objects than functional mirrors. These unique pieces are aesthetically and conceptually layered, based on political allegories, surrealistic shapes, poetical narratives, and Laverrière's personal interests.

Victor Hugo

2001
Painted rosewood, mirror
47.5 × 106 × 8 cm
Edition of 6

⟶ Inquire edition

Janette Laverrière

Victor Hugo, 2001
at Silberkuppe, Berlin

Janette Laverrière

Victor Hugo, 2001
at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Janette Laverrière

Victor Hugo, 2001
at Duddell's, Hong Kong

Evocations

Evocations is a series of sculptural mirror objects that Laverrière begun in 1989, when she stopped accepting commissions and instead adopted a new credo, "It's useful to have useless things," that would guide her for the rest of her life. Seemingly useless as mirrors because of their convex and concave forms, elaborated frames, and their distortion of reality, the objects appear more like art objects than functional mirrors. These unique pieces are aesthetically and conceptually layered, based on political allegories, surrealistic shapes, poetical narratives, and Laverrière's personal interests.