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State of Extremes

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Lucy McRae, Compression Cradle, 2019. Photo by Scottie Cameron. Courtesy of the artist

 

The exhibition State of Extremes, at the Design Museum Holon, Israel, describes a condition: that of a world that has changed, and with it, design and design practice. Among the designers and artists exhibited: Virgil Abloh, Atelier Van Lieshout (Joep Van Lieshout), Lucy McRae, Liam Young, Stephan Bogner, Philipp Schmitt, Jonas Voigt, Kuang-Yi Ku, Jun Kamei and many more.

 

Meydan Levy and Bogdan Sokol, Neo Fruit, 2018. Courtesy of the artists

 

We live in a state of extremes. Extreme weather, as a result of climate change, is both scorching and inundating the planet with record temperatures, unprecedented wildfires and ever more frequent and severe droughts, storms and floods.

 

Virgil Abloh, Alaska Chair, 2019. Courtesy of the artist

 

Meanwhile, extreme ideologies and political positions are being amplified by the media’s news cycles and the echo chamber of the Internet, further polarizing societies already inflamed by extreme, and growing, inequality and resentments. Extremes breed more extremes, creating self-reinforcing cycles of pushback and backlash, and fueling spiraling feedback loops of increasing intensity.

 

Kuang-Yi Ku, Tiger Penis Project, 2018. Courtesy of the artist
Kuang-Yi Ku, Tiger Penis Project, 2018. Photo by Yu-Tzu Huang. Courtesy of the artist

 

Moreover, science, technology and the human imagination are opening new possibilities that pose existential questions about what it means to be human, what is natural and artificial, and how we might adapt to “new normals” whose full implications we do not yet understand. Extremes, after all, are relative; what seems extreme today may become routine tomorrow.

 

Jun Kamei, Amphibio, 2018. Photo by Jukan Tateisi. Courtesy of the artist

 

State of Extremes aims to show the potential of design to reveal, critique, resist, mitigate (and, yes, sometimes exacerbate) extremes and the mechanisms that drive them. At a time when our technologies, power structures and impact on the planet are engendering ever more extreme scenarios, “State of Extremes” might serve as a call for moderation.

 

Atelier Van Lieshout, Birds, 2017. Courtesy of the artist

 

State of Extremes
12.12.2019 – 09.05.2020

 

Discover: www.dmh.org.il

Atelier Van Lieshout Design Museum Holon future Jonas Voigt Jun Kamei Kuang-Yi Ku Liam Young Lucy McRae Philipp Schmitt State of Extremes Stephan Bogner Virgil Abloh
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