Metamorphosis
Lisboa, Portugal, 2013
Curator of the Metamorphosis project and exhibition, presented at the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon.
GMG was invited by Corticeira Amorim to explore the potential of cork and the technological and industrial expertise that this Portuguese company had achieved. In this context, she proposed two distinct projects: the MATERIA design collection and an exhibition resulting from a research and design initiative that invited a group of architects and designers to work with cork—both developed in collaboration with experimentadesign.
METAMORPHOSIS emerged as a process of research and development into the potential and expanded limits of cork, a deeply Portuguese material. The project analyzed its innovative, creative, and avant-garde possibilities, seeking to explore its limitations, boundaries, and capacity for transformation.
Through the reflection and research of an international group of designers and architects, METAMORPHOSIS proposed new products, utilities, and projects based on the unique properties of cork. It was an experimental project in which the invited authors were granted total creative freedom to conceive new territories, functions, and forms using this material—establishing cork as a relevant resource in material culture and production in the 21st century.
Participants:
Alejandro Aravena (CL), Álvaro Siza (PT), Amanda Levete (GB), Eduardo Souto De Moura (PT), Herzog & De Meuron (CH), James Irvine (GB), Jasper Morrison (GB), João Luís Carrilho Da Graça (PT), Manuel Aires Mateus (PT), and Naoto Fukasawa (JP).
Metamorphosis was developed by experimentadesign in partnership with Corticeira Amorim, entirely produced by the company, with the enthusiastic involvement of António and Cristina Amorim and their team.
The exhibition was open to the public from November 8 to December 1, 2013, at the Jerónimos Monastery, as part of the biennial EXD’13. The inauguration was attended by the President of the Portuguese Republic, Aníbal Cavaco Silva.
Metamorphosis Exhibition Photos
