Compositions, presented by aarticles for 3daysofdesign, brings objects from successive collections forward into the company of newer works, where layering becomes a form of co-construction.

Like a conversation built across more than one voice, one object leaves room for another to recompose the whole. Earlier works return with previous arrangements still somewhere in the grain; newer pieces enter a field already warmed by what came before. Meaning gathers in the overlap, in the brief moment before the arrangement moves again.

A thought, after all, does not always belong to the person who began it; it can be continued elsewhere, altered at the point of reply. So too with objects brought into company. Styled as a collector's home, somewhere between a lived-in apartment and a gallery, found pieces and contemporary works occupy the same composition; older methods and newer hands play at different speeds, in coexistence without forced harmony.

Participating Artists

Exhibiting in Europe for the first time, Vince Skelly presents small-scale wooden sculptures developed from chess set prototypes and studies for a larger outdoor exhibition planned for later this summer. Sharlen Nozawa shows new Bizen ware from a recent residency in Japan, paired with silver-glazed pieces extending her work on surface and material tension. Juliette Pénélope Pépin presents ceramics developed through terra sigillata, ash glazes and wild clay slips, the vases moving between domestic form and speculative artefact. Jérémie St-Onge of Verre d'Onge shows a series of hand-blown glass vessels in which design emerges through the ensemble; placed together, the vases become a loose family, their differences doing the work of composition. Hannah Kuhlmann and Patricia Perales García also present new work, alongside returning makers Christian+Jade, Agnieszka Owsiany, Shane Gabier, Yeodong Yun, Louie Isaaman-Jones and Anna Fiedler.

Photography by Fred Aartun