Unnatural Practice
Unnatural Practice presents the deep sense of our ongoing research and development phases that inform and condition our work. From the Proustian sublimation of decay in the very first series of Perishable Vases, to the most recent collection, the Protoplasting Nature, where vegetal elements, petrified in metal or resin, provide a formal and material reinterpretation of the Art Nouveau period advancing a new conceptual framework, natural elements are implemented into a series of narrative, rather than purely functional, objects.
Collecting and dissecting, crystallising and destroying the natural elements, we give them a new life, simultaneously transforming them into effigies of themselves. This process of temporal crystallization might seem an aesthetic path, but it is, in reality, an elegy of the intrinsic movement of life and nature, whose elements, though suspended in time, continue to decay with a slow trajectory that teaches us the passage of time and the value of its mutation, forming a great living ecosystem of objects that, with time, becomes the basis for a subsequent metamorphosis.
Conceived as a petrified fragment of our ongoing investigations, the exhibition is guided by an invisible, olfactory path specially prepared by synaesthetic perfumer Barbabe Fillion. Commissioned to reinterpret the motifs found in the materiality of our creations, the scents of Flora, Zinc, and Decay were used to create a unique sensory choreography.
Collecting and dissecting, crystallising and destroying the natural elements, we give them a new life, simultaneously transforming them into effigies of themselves. This process of temporal crystallization might seem an aesthetic path, but it is, in reality, an elegy of the intrinsic movement of life and nature, whose elements, though suspended in time, continue to decay with a slow trajectory that teaches us the passage of time and the value of its mutation, forming a great living ecosystem of objects that, with time, becomes the basis for a subsequent metamorphosis.
Conceived as a petrified fragment of our ongoing investigations, the exhibition is guided by an invisible, olfactory path specially prepared by synaesthetic perfumer Barbabe Fillion. Commissioned to reinterpret the motifs found in the materiality of our creations, the scents of Flora, Zinc, and Decay were used to create a unique sensory choreography.
| YEAR: 2022 |
COLLABORATORS: Curated by Federica Sala. Marcin Rusak Tamara Pilawska Baranowska Aga Beaupre Sotiris de Wit Barnabe Fillion Igor Jansen Marcel Kaczmarek Dominik Karasiński Ivo Krankowki Olga Michaluk Justyna Stasiowska Mateusz Wappa |
PHOTO CREDITS: DSL Studio, Marcin Rusak Studio |
LOCATION: Milan, Italy |
