Object with One Hole is a vehicle to explore the physical object in the digital post-truth era. Neither constrained by materiality nor scale, the object is solely defined by its recognisable shape and can reincarnate in any medium, including sculpture, video, digital imagery and photography. 

Acker created the first Object with One Hole in 2012, an object “which includes a negative space, or an absence of physical matter in its sculptural form.” The artist then produced several tools for reproduction, including a plaster mould, a silicone mould and a 3D-scan. The following iterations of the object explored physical casts made from bronze, plaster, concrete, and resin as well as objects carved from wood and clad in fabrics. 

In the first video, Object with One Hole #15 (2012), the object is continuously rotating while its materiality is slowly morphing from various metals to resins, fabrics, and fur. Reminiscent of virtual products in high-end shopping environments, Acker has in fact reversed the production process and merged video footage of the physical objects in post-production. In further iterations, the artist declared renderings and photographs of the physical objects to be artworks in their own right. Challenging the traditional distinctions between original artworks, reproduction and photographic documentation and reflecting on how we primarily consume artworks through their digital representations today. 


Various versions of Object with One Hole continue to appear in exhibitions, books, e-publications and other environments both inside and outside the gallery:

24H Skulptur, exhibition catalogue, Berlin: Distanz, 2015
Chelsea 10, Cookhouse Gallery, London, 2015
How to Sleep Faster, Arcadia Missa, E-Publication, London, 2012
Come to Disruption, Vestebro ConTemporary Workout Space, Copenhagen, 2012
Come to Disruption, Arcadia Missa, London, 2012
Graduate Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London, 2012