Lacrymatoires (Ashkdan)
Blown glass, artificial tears, metal shelf
45×15x15 cm
2025
Entire walls are covered with large-scale black-and-white prints depicting the artist’s tears, as seen through a microscope. Three blown-glass sculptures inspired by the shapes of ancient lachrymatories stand out against one of these prints. A lachrymatory was a vessel meant to collect the tears of mourners, linking the evaporation of tears to the progression of grief. By filling these vessels with artificial tears, the artist creates a dialogue between truth and the illusion of truth (enlarged real tears and artificial tears), as well as between lived experience and imagined objects valued for their poetic utility.
