LABINAC – Maria Thereza Alves
LABINAC is a design collective founded in 2018 by the artists Maria Thereza Alves and Jimmie Durham together with Kai- Morten Vollmer, with the dual purpose of designing and making objects (furniture, chandeliers, and other elements of interior design) and supporting the design works of Indigenous peoples in Latin America, of which both artists have been staunch defenders throughout their lives.
Built. a chair a table a lamp a vase
Left….Stay.”
LABINAC follows the idea that Alves once expressed in the sentence: “The earth is much more than our daily routines, aesthetic life is a life worth living.”LABINAC was initiated with the intention of being a collective open to other artists and designers. Alves and Durham invited Elisa Strinna, Jone Kvie and Philipp Modersohn.
Other artists that collaborated in the shared idea were Bev Koski, Rosaria Iazzetta, Alessandro Piromallo and Victor Santamarina. Through their research and works they have enhanced the range of potential ideas while also questioning the role of design today, the thin line between the arts, and the possibility for experimentation that different available materials offer. The common ground to all of LABINAC’s works remains the consistent approach to research and deep experimentation, as well as the desire to investigate the different life possibilities of each single object.
