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About Second Skin
Every object has a skin. Thick or thin, smooth or rough, porous or impermeable, skin is the line between a hidden interior and a surface that we can touch and see. Contemporary products, furniture, fashion, and architecture reflect the convergence of natural and artificial life. Designers today manipulate surfaces to create skins that both reveal and conceal, skins that have depth and complexity.
As advances in science dissolve the boundaries between technology and nature, a new organicism has emerged, expressed in the conjunction of artificial materials and fluid forms. As our bodies become more like industrial products-subject to miraculous procedures of maintenance, repair, and redesign-we expect objects to be more like us: responsive, erotic, and soft to the touch.
Second Skin presents examples of products, furniture, fashion, architecture, and media that are expanding the limits of the outer surface. Reflecting the convergence of natural and artificial life, the exhibition will show how enhanced and simulated skins appear throughout the contemporary environment. Designers today continually manipulate the relationship between the inside and outside of objects, garments, and buildings, creating skins that both reveal and conceal, skins that have depth, complexity, and their own behaviors and identities.
Second Skin is a sequel to Skin: Surface, Substance + Design, organized by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution in New York City, 2002. Second Skin contains new objects and projects as well as selected works from the original installation.
Every object has a skin. Thick or thin, smooth or rough, porous or impermeable, skin is the line between a hidden interior and a surface that we can touch and see. Contemporary products, furniture, fashion, and architecture reflect the convergence of natural and artificial life. Designers today manipulate surfaces to create skins that both reveal and conceal, skins that have depth and complexity.
As advances in science dissolve the boundaries between technology and nature, a new organicism has emerged, expressed in the conjunction of artificial materials and fluid forms. As our bodies become more like industrial products-subject to miraculous procedures of maintenance, repair, and redesign-we expect objects to be more like us: responsive, erotic, and soft to the touch.
Second Skin presents examples of products, furniture, fashion, architecture, and media that are expanding the limits of the outer surface. Reflecting the convergence of natural and artificial life, the exhibition will show how enhanced and simulated skins appear throughout the contemporary environment. Designers today continually manipulate the relationship between the inside and outside of objects, garments, and buildings, creating skins that both reveal and conceal, skins that have depth, complexity, and their own behaviors and identities.
Second Skin is a sequel to Skin: Surface, Substance + Design, organized by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution in New York City, 2002. Second Skin contains new objects and projects as well as selected works from the original installation.
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