SIZED

SIZED was the studio's founding curatorial programme, staged across Los Angeles and New York between 2021 and 2022. Three large-scale exhibitions established its approach: site as medium, object as aura, and display without hierarchy.

For its inaugural exhibition, the studio convened a global group of artists, designers, dealers, and collectors in a site-specific installation within a 15,000-square-foot warehouse at 619 North Western Avenue, Los Angeles. Works were presented on industrial steel decks at a unified height, forming a continuous plane where objects could be encountered without imposed sequence. Contributions included couture sculpture by Sterling Ruby / S.R. STUDIO. LA. CA., performance-worn instruments from Lykke Li, furniture by Luka Sabbat, a Gallic chair by Michèle Lamy for Rick Owens Furniture, hand-crafted garments by No Sesso, and terracotta head vases by Casa Ahorita.

Vessels followed at the studio's Hollywood space, an exhibition dedicated to the vessel as a form of poetic function. Spanning 7,000 square feet across two floors, the presentation gathered more than two hundred works by artists, designers, architects, and studios from around the world, pairing them with botanical arrangements informed by the Sōgetsu school. Familiar forms were revisited as both functional and sculptural, expanding the definition of the vessel beyond container to include objects that hold space, presence, and ritual.

Industrialism marked the programme's New York debut, presented at Donna Karan's UrbanZen in the West Village. Spanning two floors and featuring over one hundred works by nearly fifty artists, designers, dealers, and galleries, the exhibition examined how material, process, and production shape our relationship to objects, traversing painting, archival design, sound sculpture, photography, lighting, and automotive design. It was accompanied by the Mortlach by Design Lounge, developed in collaboration with Mortlach Whisky, hosting private gatherings including a Frieze Art Fair brunch.

Location

Los Angeles / New York

Year

2022

Role

Curation, Creative Direction, Spatial Storytelling