At the occasion of this exhibition Karin Gulbran debuted two new bodies of work, which she presented alongside some of her well-known ceramic pots and vases.

Gulbran’s newly created Totemic Lamps — elegant floor lamps inspired by the work of the French 20th-century artist Guidette Carbonell — are intended to be functional sculptures, but they unarguably qualify as works of art. The column of each piece is ornamented with precious details; becoming a vertical field or a landscape encircled with miniature boars, lions, serpents, birds, vines and lemons. The newly introduced ‘Obscure Mirrors’, combining hand-formed, coloured and silvered glass with sculptural ceramic frames, also allude to the familiar and functional — yet they are different. Their reflection is obscured, similar to the surface of water or one's reflection in a murky pond. They create an experience of colour and light that shifts through the day.