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Erwin Wurm has questioned what constitutes a sculpture by using ephemeral materials like fruit or by presenting instructions for viewers to adopt a pose with props. Here, he exhibited an almost invisible substance—dust—on a wooden stand under a glass bell jar. At center, a clean, blank rectangle that looks like the imprint of a removed object conjures the notion of a sculpture through its absence. This humorous work can be seen to examine both the social habits of art viewing and means of artistic production.