Pico y Elote - Corn and Industry furniture design multiculturalism

multiculturalism

Artist Carmen Winant draws from over a dozen personal

often beset by dark clouds and rain

and two 20cm die-cut stickers

Basel und Braunschweig vertraut

Pico y Elote - Corn and Industry furniture design multiculturalismWith Jos Esparza Chong Cuy as curator, readers are taken on a guided journey through the artists work, focusing on two concepts that function as metaphors throughout the journey: Cultivation and harvesting and industrialization processes. Reflexively, Ortega contrasts these concepts to tell an alternative story of the Mayan myth of creation where corn is the origin of humanity to reach the globalized post industrial era and the chaos caused by longed