Publisher: Art Paper Editions, ISBN: 9789464770872, Texts: Zsofia Kollar, Design: Lien Van Leemput for 6m56s, Format: Paperback, 15 × 20 cm, 216 pp
Object-Oriented Identity: Cultural belongings from our recent past is a journey through objects and identities. Through curiosity, it helps discover the unforeseeable directions in our product-oriented society, where one is no longer the sum of their actions, but the sum of their own objects.
OOI is a catalog constructed as a result of a personal fascination with understanding the nature of our consumption. It investigates the odd connections between objects and history and their cultural relevance in our individual and collective identities.
Everyday objects are presented through a new lens, for one to show another side of these familiar items, and for another to question how much these objects can transform or manipulate one’s identity. Objects are becoming a part of our bodies, everything we own is an extension of the body and mind. The tools that we are shaping and that are now starting to shape us are at the edges of our comprehension. We have to understand how tools are shaping us, and how to cope with that shaping in the time of hyper-change.
In today’s world, the consumer spree carries on regardless, and a few of us are aware that we are still willing servants to a completely artificial injunction to consume and to define ourselves by what we consume.
Zsofia Kollar is a designer and researcher whose idea of design is in a state of flux. Her quest to understand the relationship between objects and their contexts blurs the line between fiction and the realm of our reality. There is a compelling and often strange uncanniness in her approach, which not only reveals the secrets of existing materials and objects but also investigates scenarios of future and fictional behaviors. “Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction” sums up the inherent eccentricities and subtleties evident in her cross-disciplinary practice.
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