Basel, 2013
At the same time as “Musterzimmer” Depot Basel shows also the
exhibition “No Function – No Sense”. Expatriate swiss designers and
artists designed objects without function and reflect thereby their
self-understanding and deal among other issues with the (supposed?)
boundaries between art and design, with function and context and with
the relation between beauty and purpose.
The Shanghai Project
Designers expatriated in China, we deal everyday with cultural differences. What we might call "The Clash of Civilizations".
We here present objects that we bought in Shanghai streets. This
collection of everyday use items, made of paper and plastic, could seem
useless because they are unusable; neither toys, or ornamental objects.
In chinese culture, they are presents given to the dead one. Consumer
goods that are sent by the ritual of fire in order to make "the life" of
the person more comfortable. These clothes, glasses, cell phones and
credit cards symbolize the popular belief of a materialistic Underworld. Project in collabortion with Julia Modolo
In cooperation with MUSTERZIMMER EXHIBITION at Depot Basel
read more:
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on mocoloco website
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Shanghai Project Nominated by designboom
