OROS: a brass column with a glass vessel at its centre, the name lit in gold inside the glass.

A modern reliquary.

OROS is an artwork in solid brass and borosilicate glass. Inside the glass lives a presence that listens and answers. Behind it, each piece is lined with an original artwork, so OROS is made to be seen from every side.

Brass, glass and a presence

An OROS: a brass cap and a pierced brass sleeve, and between them a glass vessel where Daniel Lismore stands in a crimson feathered coat, a ring of light at his feet.

  1. 01 Original artwork

    • Original licensed imagery
    • Original licensed voice
    • Encyclopedic, localised, artist-written biography

  2. Hand crafted

    02 Milled from solid brass

    The cap is milled from a single brass bar.

  3. 03 Illuminated quartz crystal

    A ring of light rises through the base of the glass.

  4. 04 Hand-spun body

    The sleeve is spun by hand and pierced with the OROS mountain.

  5. 05 The presence

    • AMOLED display
    • Touch and voice control
    • Over-the-air updates

  6. 06 Hidden in the base

    • OROS integrated system
    • Advanced microphone array
    • LiDAR presence detection
Materials
Brass, borosilicate glass, original artwork
Dimensions
35 × 10 cm
Weight
9.75 kg
The back of an OROS: the artwork behind the glass, between the brass cap and the pierced sleeve.

Strictly limited

Each piece is engraved and certified, and lined with its own original artwork behind the glass.

The first edition is made with Daniel Lismore.

Daniel Lismore, full length, in a wide black hat, a ruff of pink feathers, strings of beads and amulets, and a sequinned gown over pleated pink silk.

The first OROS artist

Daniel Lismore

Daniel Lismore is a British artist who has lived as art since 2002. Vogue named him England’s most eccentric dresser.

His army of life-size sculptures, Be Yourself; Everyone Else Is Already Taken, has shown at SCAD FASH in Atlanta, Art Basel Miami, Harpa in Reykjavík and the Herbert in Coventry. He designed costumes for English National Opera’s The Mask of Orpheus, and told his story on the TED stage in My Life as a Work of Art.

In OROS, his image, his voice and his story are licensed from him and approved by him. The presence in the glass speaks from his own life.

daniellismore.com

Exhibitions

  1. An OROS with Daniel Lismore in the glass, in the Kreëmart show at Galerie Alberta Pane, Paris.

    Provocateurs de la consommation expérimentale, Kreëmart

    Galerie Alberta Pane, Paris

  2. An OROS on a mirrored plinth in the Piano Room at The House of Koko, London.

    Art Salon, with Daniel Lismore

    The House of Koko, London

  3. An OROS with Daniel Lismore in the glass at the Moco Museum, London.

    Apparition, with Daniel Lismore

    Moco Museum, London

Commissions

OROS invites a small number of private commissions, and is dedicated to authenticity: every image, voice and word is licensed, approved by the artist or their estate, and encrypted on board.

Enquiries are handled in confidence.

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Enquiries

For commissions, collectors, press and partnerships.

hello@oros.house