Among the different forms of energy harvesting, i.e., the process through which energy from 'unconventional' sources is found and utilized, there is also thermoelectricity, which studies the different phenomena of conversion of heat into electricity and vice versa that occur in all materials. For his thesis project in Product Design at the IED in Cagliari…
In the last few years, a lot of new materials are creating interest in the design world, showing us how the industry is trying to invest in the idea of non-waste, natural materials, recycling and upcycling. Therefore, a lot of designers are trying to push themselves, leaving aside more traditional technologies and materials, and using…
With love, protean association and radical and enticing innocence, American artist Alex Da Corte ventures into the underground landscapes where intimacies and mass-media principalities mingle.
There are phantoms in the packaging and handling, each aluminum foil wafer a node for ancient spells, the hands of a miners' son and a welcoming of the future though…
Through fragmented creatures from medieval bestiaries, graphic gestures bordering in iconicity and vegatal dust prints, Danish artists Sif Itona Westerberg conjures incomplete absences and sculptural shells.
Forced and flattened into an ever-expanding single plane all the creature and monsters, they weep petrified. Thought of hands not beholden to human need, considered their possible snaking and…
With the body as their construction and deliberation space, Young Joon Kwak (USA) adopts performance, film and sculpture to bring new life and productive menace to our rusty conceptions of our own physicality and the identities we derive from it.
Pink the warriors of softness, intensified and sharpened brightness to giggle and…
French artist Théo Mercier rummages through history with a considerate and well meaning irreverence that congeals as unstable sculptures, eager cabinets of curiosities and fractured images.
Flattened time, with all the comforting moments squeezed out. Time laughing and in its tumbling loosing its polyped folds. Ground-down-to-powder time, floating uneasily. What snaked its way across multiple…
Mauricio Limón (Mexico) explores societal issues such as desire structures and artifices of power by employing audiovisual media, anthropological research and re-purposed modernistic styles. There is a conscious use of fragmentation, disassociation and dislocation in order to look for overarching structures hidden in simple gestures and seemingly empty landscapes.
Dispersal and obfuscation scalpel-sharp. They open…
For Michael Rakowitz (US) architecture and design are tools of infiltration, markers for the sites where fertile conflict and hybridization can occur. As a descendant of exiled Iraqi Jews living in the United States, he is interested in confronting rigid systems with those they have excluded.
The invisible enemy should never cease to exist for around…
Dutch artist Feiko Beckers turns the human world upside down by asking seemingly mundane questions that poke at the incredible and beautiful absurdity of the lives we have created for ourselves.
The pile of what has been discarded reaches the heavens. Not just the trash but outmoded ideas, species, romances. Yet more gargantuan is…
The sculptural vocabulary of Japanese artist Masatoshi Noguchi is rich with the splendor of objects and the invisible energies of the spiritual. His latest work is a reflection on the impossibility of constraining a dragon to one shape.
Compel the initiate towards recklessness by any illusions necessary. Recite the memorized figures of burning bliss, tell…