BLESS N°63 Neutra Dasein

Director documentation 2018-09-06

BLESS: (Desiree Heiss, Ines Kaag), Directors of new Temporary Programme Challenging Jewellery (2018-2020), participated in in the summer 2018 Neutra VDL Studio and Residences in Silver Lake, California. Their project BLESS N°63 Neutra Dasein was curated by Douglas Fogle and Hanneke Skerath and was exhibited from 28 July - 8 September.

"Responding to the unique architectural environment of Richard Neutra’s Los Angeles home and work space, BLESS will bring their own contemporary design ethos to this icon of Californian mid-century modernism. Living and working separately in Paris and Berlin, this project will bring the two designers and their families together in the same place for the first time for an extended residency. In a project that will be equal parts installation, artist residency and model home for alternative ways of living, BLESS will transform the Neutra VDL House into a design laboratory and a site of conviviality.

As much a residency and workshop as a design installation, the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences will become a social space where the public will be invited to spend time exploring and participating in BLESS N°63 Neutra Dasein, interacting with the designers and their cohorts from many different creative fields including industrial design, literature, film, architecture, health, food, sport and contemporary art. The project will be accompanied by a salon program and workshops devoted to questions of design in relationship to the challenges of living in our contemporary world. This interactive public aspect of the project is a fundamental motivating philosophy of BLESS."

More information about their project and Neutra VDL Studio and Residences: http://www.neutra-vdl.org/site/bless-01.asp?7192018372