‘What is life?’ goes the eternal question. In Ehsan Hemat’s ‘Everything brings us back to the body’, light and shadow dance across the ever-shifting surface of a surprising protagonist: a large, polished copper plate. Its stainless body reflects our gazes as our faces and distorted body parts flicker before us. Extracted from gaping American or African open-pit mines, processed and polished to perfection, the copper plate now quivers and breathes, as if whispering in response, ‘What is not?’.

By Marina Srnka for Pzazz.