MARROW

Designer Rafael Prieto from Mexico and French artist Loup Sarion from Toulouse found common ground in the shared context of New York City, and their joint practice Marrow Project has emerged from their dialogue around the object world and the origins of beauty. Both Prieto, founder of creative practice Savvy Studio with offices in New York and Mexico City, and Sarion are guided by memory and intuition in their individual and unified work.

Under the name of Marrow, they probe, play and think with the poetics of functionality in light sculptures inspired by the shapes of bones – “residue lovingly collected from dinner parties,” as the duo describe it themselves. Transformations of a delicious ossobuco, the lamps are “like anatomy for illumination.”

“It is a workshop for metamorphosis, visual riffs and translations of form across timescales, inhabiting ‘design’ as a threshold practice, where objects without use become scored, in various ways, in an aesthetics of activation.” Made with linen stretched over a hand-sculpted skeleton of steel, based on a sketched silhouette, the Marrow lamps, reference and rescale bone fragments.

Ark Kollekt 02 showcases three of these one-off Marrow light sculptures.

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