INDUSTRIAL SPECTACLES | 2015 - 2016

investigating materiality THROUGH A collection of jewelry and eyewear.

Exhibited nationally and internationally. Featured on Dezeen, Art Reveal Magazine, Yanko Design, Optic Magazine Russia, and more.

Steel, concrete, and duct tape are the building materials of our world. As a structural material, steel is no doubt a symbol for technology and modernity in the 20th century, and it propelled the use of concrete in architecture. Since its reemergence in the late 19th century, concrete has become perhaps the most widely used building material around the globe, thanks to its flexibility and compliant nature. From Zaha Hadid’s London Olympics Aquatics Centre to the low cost buildings in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, it is the material that we live in. In comparison to the two architectural materials, duct tape seems to stick out as a sore thumb, as a cheap material people find in aisle 15 at Home Depot when they need to tape up their broken car window. Unbeknownst to most, during the Apollo 17 mission, duct tape became a savior to the astronauts when they desperately tried to repair a broken fender on their moonbuggy. The last time man walked on the Moon also happened to be duct tape’s most glorious moment. INDUSTRIAL SPECTACLES gives agency to these accessible and democratic, yet powerful, materials through manipulation of their physicality and their recontextualization.

Images by Lorenz Mager and Patrick Han.