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CURATED ATLAS FOR CONTEMPORARY DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE
(Madrid, Spain)(Multi)(Design Directory)2023-01-11

Stef Fusani

Madrid-based artist, Stef Fusani, addresses the body's materiality as a potential object untethered from its identity.

Stef Fusani is an artist and designer based in Madrid.

In his work, he addresses the materiality of the body as a potential object untethered from its identity. Through an unstructured and fluid approach, he works by investigating the relationship that situates the body in a specific place at a specific time, mixing personal experiences with mythology, from invented memories to pop culture.

He is the founder of STANDARD404, an experimental design studio, co-founder of Malerbe, a material culture research duo and co-founder of Cinema Parentesi, a collective that works on curating ephemeral cinema festivals of video essays related to architecture and design.

Becoming Stone by Stef Fusani Photo by Ana Larrazabal
Becoming Stone by Stef Fusani Photo by Ana Larrazabal

BECOMING STONE

And thus, staring at the eyes of a Gorgon: bodies without organs, irreverent, amorphous, abstract and figurative at the same time. The whole abstracts and loses us; we recognise ourselves through the details.

They are unwanted, multiple and repeated bodies.
The deformation becomes a form of purity; the composition is broken and forced into a new state, obtaining a new uncomfortable harmony.

This new figure obeys only the possibilities of the material itself. It does not represent the search for an ideal but rather a possibility. It escapes from the standard through the standard itself.

It's the statue of myself and the annihilation of the self as an identity at the same time, and I arrived at this point; I become the gorgon and the statue of myself at the same time.

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VELVET MON AMOUR, a velvet object by Stef Fusani | Photo by Ana Larrazabal
VELVET MON AMOUR, a velvet object by Stef Fusani | Photo by Ana Larrazabal

VELVET MON AMOUR
Velvet Mon Amour is a bended PVC pipe covered by dusted velvet.
Velvet Mon Amour is a poor material covered by an old-fashioned luxurious way of life.
Velvet Mon Amour is an eighties fluffy skin in marriage with an essential structure.
Velvet Mon Amour is a handmade industrial material object with a velvety surface.
Velvet Mon Amour is a velvety brush-stroke epidermis with a plastic soul.
Velvet Mon Amour is a PVC pipe covered by velvet.
Velvet Mon Amour is just an armchair.

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The piazza has always played a central role in the functioning of a city, acting as a meeting point for its inhabitants. An open, public and inclusive space, a place for circulating information, adorned with symbolic elements, and a venue for social, religious or cultural activities. 

This condition is the core of the whole project: the gallery becomes a piazza for the last meeting under the Camp wings. Camp se acaba, orgía en mi casa is a tribute; it becomes an oneiric scenography, in which every element is directly linked to references that gravitate around the gallery itself and Bea. 

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