Tear and Discover Instal·lació Artística by Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu

Tear and Discover Instal·lació Artística by Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Bronze in Disseny de Belles Arts i Instal·lacions Artístiques Competition Category.

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Tear and Discover Instal·lació Artística

by Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Belles Arts Category

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The Design

About Tear and Discover Instal·lació Artística

Estripa i Descobreix és una instal·lació artística formada per quatre productes domèstics: un altaveu, un llum de peu, un rellotge i un ventilador. Cada objecte està completament embolicat en pell, de manera que el so, la llum, el temps i el flux d'aire queden ocults. Per utilitzar una funció, el visitant ha de tallar el revestiment de pell. La pell i les seves etiquetes representen el valor simbòlic dels béns, mentre que les parts interiors proporcionen el valor d'ús. Tots els revestiments estan modelats a mà a partir de pell adobada vegetalment d'1,5 mm i subjectats per suports d'acer inoxidable. L'obra qüestiona la relació entre signe i funció en el consum.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Tear and Discover Instal·lació Artística és un guanyador del guardó A' Design Award de Bronze, un reconeixement altament prestigiós concedit a dissenys sobresortints que es distingeixen per la creativitat, l'enginy i l'astúcia. Els guanyadors de Bronze són artefactes ampliament hàbils i sorprenentment creatius que autentiquen la vasta experiència, la imaginació i el recurs dels seus dissenyadors. Es preveu que Tear and Discover Instal·lació Artística sigui un objecte molt apreciat, admirat i estimat, notablement professional i innovador. Aquest disseny guanyador del guardó A' Design Award de Bronze incorpora les millors pràctiques de l'art, la ciència, el disseny i la tecnologia i és excel·lent per la seva atenció al detall. Tear and Discover Instal·lació Artística satisfà esplèndidament les necessitats, toca els desitjos, encisa els sentiments i crida la curiositat.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The work consists of four household products, speaker, floor lamp, clock, and fan, which are covered inside the leather. The leather and labels represent the symbolic value of the goods, while the functional components inside the leather deliver the use-value. This design emphasizes the contradiction between sign and function in the product consumption through a destructive interaction to 'cut' the signed cover and liberate the function.
Dimensions & Packaging: speaker,345*345*1427mm
floor lamp,372*305*1930mm
clock,455*140*100mm
fan，360*200*1610mm
Tags: art, craft, furniture, speaker, floor lamp, clock, fan
Production Technology: This work uses the leather wet shaping craft, the leather surface and stainless steel support form a strong visual tension. The whole set of products is all made of 1.5mm whole vegetable-tanned leather. After soaking for 8 hours, awakening the active protein of the leather and giving the leather better ductility. After it is wrapped on the shaping mold and shaped by hand, giving the product shapes a soft curve and organic sense.
Design Challenge: The most difficult part of this design is the expression of the mindset.
Firstly, how to express the idea through the design language? After many times discussion, The use of metaphorical forms of wrapping, highlighting and rupture, and contradictory interactions were confirmed.
Secondly, how to shape the leather into the form? This step took many material tests and prototypes before the final form was created.
Research: The work have taken the‘Consumption society’ as our research direction and the commodity as the object for our project. The design want to discuss the relationship between symbol, function, and commodity and reflected on the design. Through research the design aim to express the contradiction between symbolic value and use-value of products in the consumer society where signs are proliferating.
Inspiration: Living in the current era of consumption, symbolic consumption has gradually changed our mindset of on-demand consumption, and the functions of products have been obscured by the virtual signs created by capital. The endless pursuit of the sign has accelerated the waste of material. Therefore the work rethought the relationship among signs, functions, and design.
Project Duration: The project starts in November 2020 in Shanghai and is completed in 2021 in Shanghai, where it will be exhibited in June.
Operation Flow: The work covered by leather, functions are hidden inside——the sound is obscured, the light is covered, the time is hidden, the wind is blocked, in order to use the functions, the user needs to cut the leather through destructive interactions and destroy the complete leather the user's thoughts will be aroused during the interaction.
Patents: Jie Gao
Hengguang Wu
Team Members: Jie Gao
Hengguang Wu
Image Credits: Jie Gao, Hengguang Wu