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Created by British artist Gabriele Beveridge, the wall-mounted sculpture True Bone (2019) pairs hand-blown glass forms with chromed steel shop fittings, materials more commonly associated with retail display than fine art. Yet here, they take on a distinctly biological  presence.

The glass elements, soft and translucent, hang like fragile, amorphous anatomical fragments, while the polished steel armature — suggestive of bones, cartilage, or internal structures — functions as both support and restraint. Beveridge’s use of shop fittings is deliberate: these are the same systems used to present fashion and beauty products, now repurposed to hold something that feels intimate, vulnerable, and faintly human.

What makes True Bone so compelling is this uneasy balance between the organic and industrial. The work feels skeletal without being literal, bodily without depicting a body. It hovers in that uncanny space where consumer culture and physicality intersect — a recurring theme in Beveridge’s practice. The sculpture seems to ask what happens when the frameworks designed to sell surfaces are instead asked to carry something essential.

Encountering True Bone offers a moment of stillness and introspection, drawing you in rather than shouting for attention.

Photographed at Frieze New York in 2019