To wrap up HUM’s coverage of the 60th Venice Biennale, here are some of our team’s takeaways of the curated section, Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere. The exhibition’s title is a reference to a series of works by the Paris-born, Palermo-based collective Claire Fontaine, which consists of a number of neon sculptures that have displayed the phrase “Foreigners Everywhere” in different languages throughout the world since 2004, including a version shown at CoCA in Ōtautahi Christchurch in 2015. The phrase “Foreigners Everywhere” is itself a reference to the Turin artist collective Stranieri Ovunque, whose works in the early 2000s critiqued racism and xenophobia.
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You’ve spoken about not considering yourself a designer per se or being directly involved only in fashion. How do you define yourself now?
I don’t know if I’ve ever had a need to define myself. I think the reason I’ve spoken about not defining myself as a designer is that I never really designed. I never went through this career of being someone’s assistant and a junior designer and a designer. I sort of fell in from trend forecasting, and then I found myself as a design director which is more about orchestrating or conducting a process. So, I see myself much more as someone organising people or organising processes, creating clues for design or references for design. It’s very truthful that I was never really someone who was sketching, and I was never someone who had an ambition to be a designer.
And in your personal life, how do you design your living space? I know it’s not just you living on your own, but how do you arrange your environment, and what is your relationship to objects?
I don’t know if I’ve ever had a need to define myself. I think the reason I’ve spoken about not defining myself as a designer is that I never really designed. I never went through this career of being someone’s assistant and a junior designer and a designer. I sort of fell in from trend forecasting, and then I found myself as a design director which is more about orchestrating or conducting a process. So, I see myself much more as someone organising people or organising processes, creating clues for design or references for design. It’s very truthful that I was never really someone who was sketching, and I was never someone who had an ambition to be a designer.
“I think everything in our life happens around the kitchen. It’s where you have the last coffee of the day or the first of the morning, but also the first working session or the first emails.”
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