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frozen in time
Studio Wieki Somers
January 30 - March 20, 2010
Flowering sprigs seem to merge with a lamp, the construction of stools is hiding within a transparent skin and branches bow under the weight of icy layers, seemingly for a few moments only. The objects look like frozen moments in time. They are wellknown in their functionality – lamps, stools, vases – but mysterious in their connections of contrasting elements and their silent appearance...
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Wieki Somers and Dylan van den Berg studied at Design Academy Eindhoven in the late ’90s. Since the establishment in 2003 the studio has earned international recognition for the way it introduces extraordinary fantasy in everyday objects. Through the development of a deep sensitivity for materials combined with technological detailing the studio aims to provide an enlightened reading of our environment. Through this restless experimentation with practical objects – their shapes, material and meaning, the way they are made and the way they are used – the studio’s work questions our aesthetic impulse in a subtle and often contradictory manner...