Now in its sixth version, the Head Hello Lamp Present opens this week in New York. It collects lamps—from out of doors fixtures to illuminated bedside objects—that blur artwork and performance. The biannual exhibition is on view Could 8–9 at BOOM at The Commonplace, Excessive Line.
Music and DJ units by Jackson & Fiction, Sasha Crush, African Violet Roots, Vikmatic, Ella Hussle & Mo Yasin, and Disgonuts will accompany the exhibiting.
The Lamp Present is organized, as in years previous, by Head Hello cofounders Alexandra Hodkowski and Alvaro Alcocer. They collaborated with Stephen Markos, founding father of design gallery Superhouse, on the choice. That is the primary time Head Hello has invited a curatorial collaborator, Head Hello shared. This 12 months additionally marks the present’s first time working on a biannual format, with the fifth version having occurred in 2024.
AIA New York just lately bestowed Hodkowski and Alcocer its Structure in Media Award. They had been acknowledged for Head Hello’s contributions to advancing design discourse in New York by means of public talks, readings, and happenings just like the Lamp Present.
“The choice of this 12 months’s lamps embraces a various vary of backgrounds, talent ranges, ideas, and supplies, with lamps out there on the market at numerous worth factors,” Head Hello stated.
Architects Do Lamps
Members embody artists, architects, and designers from all over the world with a heavy serving to of native members. The architectural designers participating this 12 months are Alexandra Rodriguez, David Ruperti, Emma Fuller, Michael Overby, Hawa Al-Najjar, Jun Ong, LOT-EK, Mathilde Piel, and Studio Atomic.
Alexandra Rodriguez and Esteban Chacon contributed Trapo Lamp, a cylindrical out of doors fixture made with plywood and translucent cloth that emanates a delicate glow.
With Teem, designed by David Ruperti, New York’s “sticker tradition” turns into a lamp. A collage of colourful, text-heavy stickers type the physique or stand for a lone, spherical gentle.
Jun Ong performed with the character and look of kits to design AERO LAMP, a fixture product of powder-coated metal, elastic mesh cloth, tie-dyed cloth, and eyelets. The tie-dye cloth mimics the look of sky and its stretched nature makes it prepared for flight.
A number of of the architect-designed lamps make inventive use of discarded objects. Emma Fuller and Michael Overby reused cafe furnishings for his or her contribution. The spindly legs, again, and arms of a deconstructed eating accouterments splay over the spherical spherical gentle gently positioned within the heart of the sculptural design object. Equally, LOT-EK discovered a brand new use for the metal ring of flat-bed truck wheels. The agency’s round lamp glows a deep shade of orange.
Hawa Al-Najjar was equally influenced by the previous, albeit a way more historical one: the third millennium BCE in northern Mesopotamia. Mild glows subtly by means of a porcelain shade atop an oblong base that was outfitted with switches, a crucial, however usually not ornamental element of lamps.
Mathilde Piel experimented with portability, who stated a lamp needs to be stationary? Semaphore is compact because of a small rectangular metallic field that retains a match-like fixture upright for full illumination.
Studio Atomic positioned a sequence of draping kinds inside a sq. body. For the design studio, the lamp suggests “an area between seeing and being seen, leaving room for what stays unseen.”
A full listing of members on this 12 months’s Lamp Present is reproduced under.
Adam Clifford (New York)
Alexandra Rodriguez and Esteban Chacon (Quebradillas, Puerto Rico; and San Jose, Costa Rica)
Alicia Tam Wei and Joey Zeledon (New York)
Andrew Laska (New York) Ashley Palmer (New York)
Austin Clay Willis (New York)
Axel Peemoeller, New Studio (New York)
Invoice Carroll (New York)
Cass Carl (New York)
Clement Heyraud (Montreal, Canada)
Danielle Stolz (Chicago)
David Ruperti (New York)
Derek Cuellar (New York)
Ember Hua and Dong Longyue (New York
Emilia Schonthal (New York)
Fenna Kosfeld (Barcelona, Spain; Frankfurt, Germany)
Fuller/Overby (New York)
Gregory Dzurita (New York)
Hawa Al-Najjar (New York)
Jake Coan (Copake, New York)
John Gnorski, represented by Studio AHEAD (San Francisco)
Josh Owen (Rochester, New York)
Jun Ong (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Kyle Daniels (Oakland, California)
LOT-EK (New York)
Mathilde Piel (Paris)
Matyáš Barák (Prague)
Max Chen (New York, New York)
MMOOS. (Turin, Italy)
Narawit Christopher Gale, Kidtofer (New York)
outgoing (New York)
Studio Atomic (New York)
Studio S II (New York)
Suna Bonometti (New York)
Suraj Barthy (New York)
Yuxuan Huang (New York)
