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Inner Tube by Maria BlaisseThis multimedia presentation focuses on the work of designer and artist Maria Blaisse.
It investigates and documents how Blaisse discovers new shapes and applications in a prosaic object: the inner tube.
As she takes it apart and recombines the pieces, new objects are born, in materials including rubber, foam, gauze and textile.
This is the first time Maria Blaisse's work has been shown together.
The objects, photographs and films can be read as an argument for an exceptional way of designing centred around careful attention, modesty and surprise.
In preparation for Inner Tube, Maria Blaisse spoke with the mathematical logician Henk Barendregt.
What happens if you turn an inner tube inside out through its valve? How do you change its round shape to a seaweed-like structure? What makes an inner tube different from a sphere?
The inner tube's shape is an object of research for mathematics, too.
"Mathematics is about the infinite possibilities of human thought," Barendregt says, "and that infinity only takes on meaning when you limit yourself.
Creativity requires dogmas - basic assumptions we can examine, intuitively and systematically.
The way Maria Blaisse has been working with inner tubes for twenty years is an example of this."
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