Rituals of Self Design

This solo exhibition takes place at the Overbeck Gesellschaft, Luebeck, Germany, between 17 Nov 2013 – 12 Jan 2014. The exhibition extends the enquiry embodied in the installation (chair, coat-rack, stretcher) shown in 2010 at Espace Arlaud (Des Seins à Dessein, Lausanne) and on the exploration of alternative venues for showing contemporary views on jewellery and body related issues. Understanding the exhibition as a discursive element in research (see interview, Bernabei, 2011), speculative design and artistic installations were developed to investigate the merging between medical techniques of self-design and the everydayness of domestic interiors. Referencing the mass-media familiarity with the medical operation-theatre, this exhibition uses the three rooms of the pavilion (134-m2) to reflect on the relationship between home-improvement and body-improvement. Work made for the venue, including site-specific work and photography, utilise chromed tubing, glass, leather and 2nd hand furniture as prime materials, appropriating in a critical manner the grammar of Modern design.