Reverse Perverse, 2006

From Door Cycle
Acrylic glass sculpture in painted wooden door panel. Size: door 200 x 90 x 4 cm (78¾ x 35½ x 1½ in). Sculpture 62 x 25 x 11 cm (24½ x 10 x 4¼ in). Edition: 15, signed and numbered on separate label.

Using reduced materials and an intense color palette, Anish Kapoor creates sculptures of striking formal elegance that explore human corporeality and the concept of emptiness. The edition Reverse Perverse references Wyn Evans’ installation Inverse Reverse Perverse (1996) and features a sculptural, red-gloss vulva form made of acrylic glass, mounted on a pink-lacquered wooden door panel.
The work was created as part of the group edition Door Cycle, which draws on Willem de Kooning’s painting series of the same name from the 1960s. By combining an organic form with an architectural support, Kapoor addresses the interplay between body, space, and perception – a central theme in his oeuvre.