Fashion

Mass produced or hand crafted, decorative or practical, an object always has a subliminal use. Pens to write, clothes to wear, books to read. We see a shape and innately know what to do with it. But what if we didn’t? What if, for a moment, we willed ourselves to forget—and instead of utility, we saw limitless possibility?

Inspired by their dual practices in observance—of shapes, of textures, of objects—Andrés Jaña and Javier Irigoyen examine the temporality of objects and the rhythms and expressions they reveal when given the space to be.

Prized possessions do not arrive often, but when they do, they stay long, inhabiting the warm corners of our lives. These are the materials that distinguish our environments, the poetic flairs that find their way into descriptions of our personhood. She makes her coffee at home, eats an egg from a silver cup, pins her singular style on shoes and bags, and treasures the tangible: well-crafted silverware, china, objects for memories to coalesce.