ANISH KAPOOR (B. 1954)

'The mirror’s magic reduces both the depth and weight of the world into a skin that floats on the surface of the steel, emphasising the nothingness of the object itself. It is no longer the cavernous ‘inside’ of the piece that signifies the void; the creation of emptiness is now, like the mirror itself, everywhere and nowhere... if the mirror sucks in it also spits out – it reflects and refluxes’ (H.K. Bhabha, quoted in ‘Anish Kapoor: Making Emptiness’, Anish Kapoor, exh. cat., Hayward Gallery, London, 1998, p. 25).