Moure / Studio @ Venice Design Biennale 2021
Kalupso by ©Federico Floriani
Kalupso was exhibited in Italy for the Venice Design Bienniale.
Design as Self-Portrait - part II
Located on Giudecca Island, SPUMA - Space for the Arts is an evocative space of industrial archeology, in old Dreher brewery right behind Fortuny and Molino Stucky buildings.
For the third edition of the Venice Design Biennial, SPUMA hosted the second part of Design As Self-Portrait. The exhibition investigated the increasingly important role that design plays in what we choose to communicate our identity, in the permanent swing between use and representation, reality and virtuality.
Curated by: Luca Berta and Francesca Giubilei
May 20 > June 27
SPUMA - Space for the Arts
Fondamenta San Biagio 800R, Giudecca
Designers on show:
Anna Aagaard Jensen for Functional Art Gallery, Anna Jožová for UMPRUM, Ariane Shirvani, Arik Levy for Vibia and Citco, Estudio Campana for Edra, Eva Moosbrugger, Francesco Maria Messina, Konstantin Achkov, Lex Pott + David Derksen for Transnatural Art & Design, Ludovica + Roberto Palomba, Antonia Astori e Nicola De Ponti for Tubes, Michal Cole per Knots Rugs, Moure/Studio, OrtaMiklos for Functional Art Gallery, Rollo DC Bryant for Side Gallery, Tobia Zambotti, Victoria Wilmotte, Oskar Zieta.
The theme for the 2021's edition was Design As Self Portrait. All the 5 Main Exhibitions focused on this topic.
The self-portrait has not always existed in the history of art. Absent in antiquity and with first examples traceable back to the Middle Ages, it was only during the Renaissance that self-portraiture became a genre of art in its own right.
In recent decades, the self-portrait has ceased to belong exclusively to artists. Everyone is invited to portray themselves even from early school years, and there is no lack of tools or spaces with which a self-portrait can be achieved. The categories of political, religious, sexual and cultural belonging, that in the past defined a secure perimeter for a person’s notion of identity, have now faded. Moreover, the Internet has created a universally accessible and free space for self-expression. Everyone creates a representation of one’s self in a space of free fluctuation, a space in which identity becomes a design object. And this concept of identity as design is reiterated through the choices everyone makes, when it comes to what they link to their bodies and the spaces to inhabit, through objects, devices, clothes, physical locations, and virtual spaces. We are all ‘curators’ of ourselves, self-designers expressing ourselves through the consumption of products or experiences of our choosing and through the ways in which we communicate these choices to others.
