'Ooze' Low Bedside/Coffee Table with Shelves, touche—touche, France, 2020

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'Ooze' Low Bedside/Coffee Table with Shelves, touche—touche, France, 2020

About the Item

The ‘Ooze’ low table with aluminum shelving is a contemporary functional art piece by French artistic duo touche—touche. The main structure has been hand-carved from a polyether foam block to give the effect of a rock-like surface, which was then coated in a polyurethane solution to harden the exterior and protect it from water. The design features two aluminum shelves with wood-effect detailing, created using a similar process to etching to emulate the grain of a wood-plank. touche—touche are interested in tactile exploration, creating illusions by manipulating soft materials, such as foam, to look and feel like hard materials, such as rock, and vice-versa. Perfectly demonstrated and executed here with the ‘Ooze’ low table and shelves. Exhibited as part of solo exhibition 'Softalism', at Everyday Gallery, Antwerp. The exhibition’s title, 'Softalism,' is a neologism that invites the invention of a concept that may emphasize the sensual relation we form with our surroundings. touche—touche invite us to explore the confines of one of the most sacred of places: the bedroom. Carolin Gieszner (1989, DE) and Théo Demans (1992, FR) work and live together as the couple duo touche—touche. They developed a hybrid creation process by placing their work in the scenographic realm as much as the curatorial practice and that of functional installations. Moving from the museum to the theatre world, designing nightclubs, a recording studio, to immersive cinema rooms and galleries they are implementing their practice through a collaborative journey. The evasive practice of touche—touche, transports the viewer to an Empire of dream-like experience and tactile illusions. Melting tiles, soft rocks, absurd gravity, and abstract sciences are some of the matters they employ: simulated textures and artificiality give the viewer a highlighted awareness of touch and redirect objects into a mental image. Senses are played with and pragmatic interaction slowly resides to a secondary position. Each imagined scene is a reinterpretation of existing cultural traditions. Manufactured in intricate detail, using contemporary materials and techniques, they create new fiction for daily scenarios. Their environments are a free fall intangible reality.

Dimensions:
Height: 28.35 in (72 cm)Width: 39.38 in (100 cm)Depth: 21.66 in (55 cm)
Style:
Post-Modern (In the Style Of)
Materials and Techniques:
Foam
Place of Origin:
France
Period:
2010-
Date of Manufacture:
2020
Production Type:
New & Custom(One of a Kind)
Estimated Production Time:
Available Now
Condition:
Seller Location:
Antwerp, BE
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU933420797132