On the Object
On the Object is an anthropological visual research that investigates the role of the object as a representative of human consciousness. The idea behind the project arose from a question What will be the next necessary object? this question opens up another broader issue: what is necessary?
The intention is to articulate this research in several phases, each focused on a particular concern. The first chapter investigates the history of man through the conception and creation of material objects, considering what the human being unconsciously deems necessary according to the place and time in which he/she finds himself/herself.
From the creation of the first artifacts, at a time when survival was man’s primal necessity, to the conception of tools useful for the conservation and transmission of information and meanings.
The ability to use objects is probably not innate but is passed from generation to generation through cultural and social systems. Human beings and the objects created, influence each other and transform, thus producing material and cognitive stratification that defines the fundamental characteristics of our civilization.
On the Object is the first chapter of the research developed by META and was carried out as part of the Nelumbo Open Atelier residency project in Bologna.
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