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Surfaces On Which Your Setting and Sitting Will Be Uncertain
Surfaces On Which Your Setting and Sitting Will Be Uncertain
Miami, FL, United States
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Surfaces On Which Your Setting and Sitting Will Be Uncertain
Miami, FL, United States
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2014
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$0 - 10K
Various Projects designed and produced a booth at Design Miami for Patrick Parrish Gallery, who presented a collection of furniture and objects by the design studio RO/LU.
The featured project, titled “Surfaces On Which Your Setting and Sitting Will Be Uncertain,” explored RO/LU's interest in philosopher Bruno Latour's “life of things,” the belief that "objects, images, and ideas have their own agency and won’t simply sit still under someone’s watch, on someone else’s terms.” With their objects, RO/LU sought to establish a close “poetic proximity” that would “allow these things to teach [them] in ways no person could.”
The project also drew on the ideas behind Superstudio’s Quaderna line, environmental installations by Ettore Sottsass, and Scott Burton and James Lee Byars’ utilization of man as a symbol object.
To render visible RO/LU’s “poetic proximity”—a unique and dynamic relationship between person and object—Various Projects sought to standardize and equalize all the surfaces that linked the objects, the environment and the participants.
To do this, the booth walls and ceiling were covered in a gridded wallpaper that replicated precisely the welded-steel cage of RO/LU's series of objects, and a hand-woven rug covering the entire floor mirrored the same grid dimensions. Various Projects also designed gridded clothing worn by models, friends and gallery attendants. The collection overlaid the grid on color fields that referenced the work of Ed Ruscha, the architecture of Miami Beach, David Hockney’s pool paintings and Yves Saint Laurent's time spent in Morocco. The color fields bridged the visual gap between the temporary ecosystem created by the solid white Design Fair Tent and the tones and textures of the surrounding landscape.
This project relied on the generous participation of Print All Over Me, Wallpaper Projects, Arp + Masks and Mitchell Denburg Collection.
The featured project, titled “Surfaces On Which Your Setting and Sitting Will Be Uncertain,” explored RO/LU's interest in philosopher Bruno Latour's “life of things,” the belief that "objects, images, and ideas have their own agency and won’t simply sit still under someone’s watch, on someone else’s terms.” With their objects, RO/LU sought to establish a close “poetic proximity” that would “allow these things to teach [them] in ways no person could.”
The project also drew on the ideas behind Superstudio’s Quaderna line, environmental installations by Ettore Sottsass, and Scott Burton and James Lee Byars’ utilization of man as a symbol object.
To render visible RO/LU’s “poetic proximity”—a unique and dynamic relationship between person and object—Various Projects sought to standardize and equalize all the surfaces that linked the objects, the environment and the participants.
To do this, the booth walls and ceiling were covered in a gridded wallpaper that replicated precisely the welded-steel cage of RO/LU's series of objects, and a hand-woven rug covering the entire floor mirrored the same grid dimensions. Various Projects also designed gridded clothing worn by models, friends and gallery attendants. The collection overlaid the grid on color fields that referenced the work of Ed Ruscha, the architecture of Miami Beach, David Hockney’s pool paintings and Yves Saint Laurent's time spent in Morocco. The color fields bridged the visual gap between the temporary ecosystem created by the solid white Design Fair Tent and the tones and textures of the surrounding landscape.
This project relied on the generous participation of Print All Over Me, Wallpaper Projects, Arp + Masks and Mitchell Denburg Collection.
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