Fades made to fade is a collection of textile gradients, whose colors will shift through the exposure to sunlight. Through covering parts of the textiles with cardboard small artworks that feature the tanning process were created. The collection is an insight into creating color palettes with sunlight and was shown as part of the group show „Signs of Intelligence“ at Lobe Block during Berlin Gallery Weekend and Berlin Design Week in April 2024.
FADES MADE TO FADE are part of the SLOW PATTERNS textile collections.
photography by Marie Rime
We are out for something. Then, someone gives us a sign. Finally.
OUT FOR is the collective handle of five Berlin-based studios, each focusing on different aspects of material and object-oriented design. The group shares an exploratory approach based on intelligentprocesses, creative methodology, and unconventional solutions. With the exhibition SIGNS OF INTELLIGENCE (April 26–30, 2024) at Lobe-Block, the group presents current works together for the first time.
SIGNS OF INTELLIGENCE showcases design strategies that provide insights into intelligent processes at the intersection of material and method through and beyond machine support. The term „intelligent“ is perceived as a spectrum, embodying a concept that is most exciting where it is explored not solely artificially, but mostly artistically. Intelligent methodology can be traced back to the craft techniques that are among the oldest known to humanity. Hence, the quest is set in finding them, the signs of such intelligence –, through experimental play as well as in the steady rhythm of iterative processes, through material-specific foundational research as well as through speculative perspectives.
SIGNS OF INTELLIGENCE sketches a reconciliatory vision of future design that is not characterized by technological dominance, but by sustainable relationships with objects, a symbiotic human-machine interaction and decelerated processes – beyond the debate on complex systems of machine learning.