Anri Sala Resting Spells #5, 2018

The unique glass object, Resting Spells #5, was created in conjunction with Anri Sala’s 2018 film Slip of the Line. The film, which features the creation of glasses in a large artisanal workshop, introduces a moment of magic—a suspense of disbelief—when a man silently picks up one of the glasses and, apparently deep in concentration, runs his fingers back and forth over the stem. It is only when he begins to bend the stem of the glass, and later several more, and places them back on the production line, that the intervention is revealed as out of the ordinary. The glasses are returned transformed to their position in the manufacturing process where straight and bent ones mix.