“Residue lovingly collected from dinner parties - like anatomy for illumination,” as creative duo Rafael Prieto and Loup Sarion put it themselves. As Marrow, and as part of an evolving design project, the duo has stretched linen over a hand-sculpted skeleton of steel based on a sketched silhouette, creating one-off lamps that reference and rescale bone fragments.
“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.”
Emerging from a desire to probe, play and think with the poetics of functionality, Ark Kollekt 02 showcases 3 one-off Marrow light sculptures.
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