Wax artist · Anna Urata · The mep, Lucerne · 7 November – 2 December 2026

Anna Urata in her atelier — Mie Prefecture, Japan. What Remains, VV Interior Home, 2026. Photography · Takahide Urata

Anna Urata · Japan

Anna Urata (b. Mie Prefecture) works with wax — not as a medium for candles alone, but as a language for asking what materials hold and what they surrender. Her practice centres on the act of submersion: organic matter — hemp cord, linen, dried flowers, botanical stems — is immersed in wax until each object absorbs the material fully, hardens, crystallises, and becomes something else entirely. Something that carries, visibly, the record of what it passed through.

Her work does not seek to preserve. It seeks the moment when transformation leaves evidence.

In What Remains, Urata's pieces enter into dialogue with stone, fired clay, and century-old linen — materials that share a single quality: they do not conceal time. They display it.

Further works to be announced. 浦田杏梨　Anna Urata

Anna Urata at work — Mie Prefecture, Japan. What Remains, VV Interior Home, 2026.
Photography · Takahide Urata

Anna Urata, detail of process — wax object in progress.
What Remains, VV Interior Home, 2026.

Further works to be announced.

The exhibition space at The mep is anchored by two travertine cubes and a conical stone pedestal — objects from the VV Interior Home collection that serve not as furniture but as sculptural elements in dialogue with the ceramic works placed upon them. Stone holding fired clay. Geological time holding the time of making.

A sofa reupholstered in one-hundred-year-old linen completes the space — a textile that survived a century, carrying in its fibres the time of those who wove it and the spaces it inhabited. In an exhibition about what remains, it is perhaps the most eloquent object of all.

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The exhibition is open to the public from 7 November to 2 December 2026 at The mep, Lucerne, Switzerland.

Curator: Valeria Viollaz · VV Interior Home

Venue: The mep · Lucerne, Switzerland

Works from the VV Interior Home Collection

Carol Moreno · Hiroshi Aoki · Pierre Casè · Karl Hügin · Emil Schwarz · Albert Rouillert · Pierre Casè · Anna Urata · David Bürkle . Atelier Brun

Photography · Takahide Urata

Coordination · Viollaz Group

7 November – 2 December 2026

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