"Eloquent Ode to the Simple"

Konstantin Grcic's new exhibit at the Serpentine Gallery in London poses this to the visitor: What impact do boring, everyday (even "ugly") objects have on your everyday life and does this impact give them artistic value? Does functionality and ubiquity give objects weight without which, they would be meaningless?

Grcic asks this with shipping containers, car batteries and laptops. Grcic himself has brought these questions about functionality to his own design work, preferring to find inspiration in practical considerations.

i.e. Chair_One, which NYT describes as "unapologetically technocratic:"



Consider the objects in your daily life and what meaning they have because of the simple fact of their function.

via NYT