The Cycle

Bauhaus wanted to deliver art and good design to the people, seeing potential in the collaboration with the industry in order to to mass produce their designs and to create a dignified life for the working class . They started to create well-designed objects, composed of long lasting materials that people would cherish for decades .

100 years later, in the abundance of accessible goods for everybody, something got lost along the way.
Good design is often stripped down and copied as cheaper versions with a limited life expectancy. Objects are discarded as soon as they have a flaw or are not interesting anymore.

I created archetypes of objects in paraffin wax (derived from petroleum) trying to understand and reveal the detachment of people towards man-made objects .

In the video the object is being used and when becoming flawed, uninteresting, it is thrown away. It is expected to just disappear and it does not matter how or where.

A new object will appear anyway, and it does not matter how or where it comes from.

Ex hibition of work in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam:

An exhibition made in collaboration with students from KABK and Rietveld Academie on the topic of Rethinking Bauhaus .

The project consisted of the developement of an individual work and a group collaboration in curating and organization of a Symposium called Rethinking Bauhaus .