Obsessive Thougths
with Unga for Varsi Art & Lab
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A well-known Buddhist parable tells the story of two monks, one old, one young. They come to a river with a strong current, where they meet a young woman who is unable to get across alone and asks the monks for help. The monks live by a sacred vow to never touch women; yet the older monk goes to her aide, carrying her over the water to the other side. The two monks continue on their way, but the young monk can’t stop thinking about the fact the elder has broken his vow. Possessed by this thought, eventually, it gets the better of him until he can’t contain the question any longer: “Why did you carry that woman when we have taken a vow?” The elder replies. “I left her on the river bank.
Why are you still carrying her?”
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Limited edition of 30, cast in Jesmonite and hand painted. PURCHASE IT HERE.
Photographed by Gianluca Gasbarri
Tufted rugs
for HIN's book launch exhibition "Adam & Eve"
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The wool tufted pieces are created for “Adam & Eve”, a solo exhibition by artist Hin. The weird, wacky and heady installation is based on the artist's book of the same name published in 2020 and offers Hin's satirical point of view on the trappings of contemporary life, humorous observations on class, race, social mobility, consumerism and the never-ending search for self improvement.
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Photographed by Giorgos Vitsaropoulos
REPURPOSE
for M2P at Benaki Museum Athens
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For this project the team of designers at M2P asked Alessia De Pasquale to reimagine their new screen printed fabric. The motif is inspired by traditional Greek embroideries of the Epirus region dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries. The result is a unique serie of unusual vases. A fabric case to turn plastic bottles into a vase.
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Available in different shapes, sizes and colour. PURCHASE IT HERE
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Photographed by Giorgos Vitsaropoulos
Safe Troubles
with Broken Fingaz for Varsi Art & Lab
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This collab with psychedelic art crew Broken Fingaz is a mini serie of handmade, single-edition denim jackets for "Safe Troubles" exhibition at Galleria Varsi in Rome.
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Photographed by Gianluca Gasbarri
Laka Masks
for Pakal
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This mini series of handmade masks was created for artist Pakal. He creates his own world of tribes with fictional characters. These are the masks of the Laka tribe, nomadic people who believe in creativity as a path to transformation and reinvention - the viewer is lead to question the authority of sovereign knowledge, and follow their intuition.
The steed & Costumes
for Pakal at Saatchi Gallery London
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This installation has been created entirely by hand for “The Missing Museum”, a solo exhibition at Saatchi Gallery by artist Pakal. In a contemporary world of fake facts and believable fiction, the position of the museum has shifted. Museums used to be repositories of colonised objects asserting a prevailing institutional narrative. Now they have become sites of questioning and contemplation. Within the Missing Museum, these ideas of fact and fiction intertwine.A presentation of previously unseen art and artefacts provides an insight into the culture of the Laka tribe. These are the remnants of a nomadic people who believed in creativity as a path to transformation and reinvention. Viewers are led to question the authority and authenticity of what they see before them and relate it to their own lives.
Photographed by Bar Alon
Shmiracles
with Unga and Pakal for WA Green
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Shmiracles is a new, one-off textile collaboration between Pakal and Unga. Though drawing on different aesthetic influences the two artists share a love of vibrant colours, humour and experimental design and folk art. Shmircales, a series of unique, hand-woven, original works on fabric, is the result of their collaboration.
Produced by ADP studio with Sai Alon.
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Finga
with Broken Fingaz for Varsi Arte & Lab
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“Finga” is a handmade ceramic sculpture created for exhibition “Reality Check” by psych-pop collective Broken Fingaz at Varsi Art & Lab. It comes in a screen printed wood box.
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Limited edition of 10 per colour.
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