Aurélien Mole
Streamline
Aurélien Mole
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Glazed ceramic.
30 x 20 x 10cm
Date of production,
2015
Description
Benin

Streamline is an edition of vases, bookends made according to the proportions of the Shiva vase by Ettore Sottsass. It maintains an ambiguous relationship with the latter: it is both a more exact representation of the Linga, these stylized phalluses that can be found in Hindu art, but also a sort of cache-sex for the original vase when it is surrounded on each side by these tombstones.

The title is inspired by a 20th century design movement famous for the dynamic shapes of the covers they designed to cover the mechanics of machines. Privileging the external appearance rather than the overall functionalism of the objects, he was notably criticized for only doing encapotage, in other words: packaging.