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An exhibition about fragmentary information at Sir John Soane's Museum.

Each fragment of architecture, art and interior feature collected by Sir John Soane and displayed in his museum draws an incomplete yet intriguing picture of the whole. They seem to be able to embody something significantly bigger than its size, inviting us to speculate, imagine and eventually form our own versions of what they are. These objects are kind of short quotations from different places, ready to be reused, interpreted or sometimes misused. The exhibition explores the idea of how an incomplete could shape the complete.

Taking place at No.12 Breakfast Room and the Crypt area of Sir John Soane's Museum, each work presented is a suggestion or a proposition of how we might make sense of something bigger through something small, insignificant or fragmentary.

Study O Portable, founded by Bernadette Deddens [NL] and Tetsuo Mukai [JP], is a research based practice that makes objects about the designed environment, and our relationship to the cultural landscape that enables it, with a particular interest in the transitional nature of our ideas towards objects. The work often catalogues various, and sometimes disparate notions associated with certain ideas and objects, and proposes other potential for the mundane and ordinary. The practice maintains a speculative approach to the definition of designing, and is intrigued by different modes of thinking related to things and objects in general.

Since 2009, the work of Study O Portable has been presented internationally at various occasions and places such as Design Miami (Miami Beach, Basel), London Design Festival (London), Design Parade (Hyeres), Gallery FUMI (London, Porto Cervo), Caroline van Hoek (Brussels, Knokke), Phillips de Pury & Company (London, New York), Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven), Pavilion of Art and Design (Paris, London) among others.

As Workshop For Potential Design, they initiate and organise exhibitions related to designed conditions.

(Source: http://www.studyoportable.com/about/)

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