In the Argentina Pavilion of the new edition of London Design Biennale 2021, highlights the proposal of MOHADED Studio.
The designer Christian Mohaded is presenting “Open Mount”, a project for the Argentine Pavilion in the London Design Biennale 2021, cured by Franca López Barbera.
–
At your installation, Mohaded examines the resonance of design from its relationship with the artisan Lorenzo Reyes Y the Simbol, a wild plant that grows in the Calchaquíes Valleys of Catamarca, the northwestern province of Argentina from which they both originate.
For almost a decade, Cristián Mohamed and Lorenzo Reyes have carried out a collaborative and experimental practice built on the production of agreements, a common language and pacts of respect between them, the Simbol and the Mount. Man and nature, trade and profession.
“Monte Abierto is the celebration of a doing in which the generation of things occurs through the constant and reciprocal relationship between people, materials and nature”, expresses the statement from the Mohaded studio about the project that today stands out in the prestigious London exhibition.
–
–
What is the London Design Biennale
Established in 2016 by Sir John Sorrell CBE and Ben Evans CBE, the London Design Biennale promotes international collaboration and the global role of design with exhibitions and installations that “They demonstrate the ambition to create universal solutions to the problems that concern us all.”
This year, it will take place June 1-27 at Somerset House, and the participants respond to the topic, Resonance Relating to the Domino Effect of Innovative Design Concepts in the way we live and the decisions we make.
–
“It has been an incredibly difficult year for the industry, but this program will unite us as a global community to reflect and collaborate on the challenges that lie ahead, “he said at his inauguration Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London.
Cristián Mohaded’s Open Mount project at the London Biennale
The meeting place for Cristián and Lorenzo is on the border between craftsmanship and design, from where together they build their own way of doing from the dialogue of their knowledge.
–
Dialogue emerges as a technology committed to the search for a vision, a language, a common world. Thus, design is “a situated activity that configures values, ways of relating, identities and territories (…) Entering the Mount is not an invitation to the landscape, but rather to an epistemic orientation. a willingness to do otherwise; a vision in which the material and the immaterial are mutually constituted ”, they explain.
The project of Cristián Mohaded (design and Artistic direction) and Lorenzo Reyes (craftsman) was selected by the Directorate of Cultural Affairs of the Argentine Foreign Ministry and received the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina, International Trade and Worship and the Embassy of Argentina in the United Kingdom.
–
The Symbol: food, material and technology
The Simbol plant It is food for cows, horses, and donkeys that come to Mt. in summer. In winter, the cool wind dries the tender and bright green of the fibers into shades of sand yellow.
And depending on the minerals in the soil, red and orange spots may appear on the fibers.
For Lorenzo Reyes these changes confirm that nature sets the pace of his practice. “Mother nature offers us everything, we just have to go to the field and work with our hands”, assures.
“The Symbol, both as a material and as a technique, thus becomes a technology-memory that stores and transfers a know-how and a language of the Mount”.
More information: purodiseno.lat
– .
