SENZA COLORI, 2019. Silk noil, light sensitive natural dyes, nylon.

A textile installation made in collaboration with Shiso Studio and Copenhagen Distillery, existing of a floating landscape memoirs with light sensitive natural colours on furushiki wrapping cloths in silk noil, visualing a reimagining of time as an aesthetic value.

Colours have historically been valued by their light-wash- and wear factors. They are valued as good quality if they keep their intensity and colour over time. There are exceptions – such as bruised indigo blue on broken jeans and patinated leather.

The object here was to challenge the existing colour aesthetics and construct a context where time – experienced through light and wear – are changes that adds value to the design object. Instead of keeping the colours “frozen in time” - time becomes visible through the change of colours in the sensory process with light sensitive dyes that changes over time. A visualization and new value making in the interaction between body, colours and nature.

Senza Colori is a food performance where guests are invited to experience the monochromatic moonscape through the eyes of a chef, bartender, sommelier, a dancer, a sound artist, a textile artist, and a landscape architect as a way to speculate, relate, and understand the various ways nature influences contemporary culture.
The objective of Senza Colori is to use the moonscape to celebrate the nature that surrounds us, and to show how nature and its different phenomenon both influence and contribute to our understandings of our own sensory experience.

Photo credits: Hipermania