Hand-Made

Anna Mlasowsky embraces nontraditional viewpoints and unanswered questions in her art, which is about the exploration and investigation of glass. The video installation Hand-Made documents the artist hand-forming a sculpture—wearing fireproof gloves—that is displayed on a pedestal next to the video projection. “On the market, craft products are described with and circumscribed by the term ‘handmade,’” Mlasowsky says. “The piece Hand-Made is a literal execution of this term. As a glass artist, I can never shape the material with my own hands. Tools function as a translator of my movement. This piece is a poetic study of material that exploits my wish to form the hot material directly, and results in shapes that can only be created by hand.”