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barranco is a design studio based in Medellin, run by architect and object designer Iojann, that focuses on ideas as material. In his work, the materialization of these ideas is mediated by a sensitive reading of the context in which objects and spaces emerge.
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Flor nocturna
Design: Barranco.
Location: Medellín, Antioquia.
year: 2024
Photography: Departamento de arte (Pamela Ángel)
Local adaptations through Robert Smithson and Fernando Vallejo Lens
I remember when I read Vallejo's Blue Days I remembered that feeling of living in an urban context made of lines on broken geography, running in zigzags chasing balloons that moved with the wind's vector was like inhabiting another geographic space plagued by strange and arbitrary lines.
on the other hand the mirror practice research made by Smithson on Yucatan inspired the object expression as a mirrored flower sleeping on the crowded and noisy Medellin parks.
people catching a descending balloon
I’m using a mirror because the mirror in a sense is both the physical mirror and the reflection: the mirror as a concept and abstraction; then the mirror as a fact within the mirror of the concept. So that’s a departure from the other kind of contained, scattering idea. But still the bi-polar unity between the two places is kept.” Robert Smithson, 1969.[1]
Yucatan mirror displacements; 1969-Robert Smithson
nightflower sleeping time
nightflower isometric
devotional nightflower