About This Project

Expanding upon the graduation project of Eleonora Pizzini the students and alumni of MA Space & Communication, HEAD-Genève, present Congress of Spoons. Congress of Spoons is a demonstration of the narrative power of set design in exhibitions. Through the creation of a series of contextualising cabinets, installations, performances and devices for the very same object, a spoon, the exhibition investigates the obsessive, uncomfortable and shifting role of objects and our relationships with them. By exploring the ways in which different modes of exhibition reveal our agency in these object-human relationships, it questions our anthropocentric approach and exposes the potential otherness of the object itself. In this exhibition the spoon stands as the ultimate proxy, a tool able to represent the value of objects in our culture. It appears across history and was one of the first tools to be carved by humans. It is ubiquitous and remarkable for its quotidian character. It was essential to the survival and development of humankind but today it passes beneath notice. Despite its omnipresence in the history of human civilisation, it remains much the same tool as when it was first carved. Everyone has used one. Confronted by these displays, the visitor is faced with the equivocal nature of the object. The spoon is observed, dissected, elevated, recorded, melted, filmed, re-formed, played, mystified and demystified, not to ascertain some ineffable essence of the object itself but rather to lay bare the manner in which we imbue objects with meaning and mythologize them. The spoon is the mid 19th century design Baguette, created by Sola, Switzerland, for the brasseries and bistros of Paris. Workshop by NEONEO, in collaboration with Helena Bosch Vidal and Jeanne Pasquet.