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APRDELESP –; Accesorios Espaciales

At the banquet, I first became acquainted with the corn tortilla, which intrigued me as it was, at the same time, a fork, spoon, and bread.

—Gutierre Tibón

For the first solo exhibition by APRDELESP at AGO Projects, we present a showroom for the launch of Accesorios Espaciales, a new brand of electrical accessories.

In traditional design processes, electrical accessories are given little importance. They are commonly added last, after designing walls, ceilings, or floors, and sometimes even after tables, sofas, or chairs. Their placement generally follows standardized criteria: an outlet near a desk, 30 centimeters high, or a switch at the entrance of a room, 120 centimeters high. Architects draw them on floor plans with a symbol that does not reflect their shape, color, or texture: for example, represents a switch, an outlet, a USB outlet, and D a dimmer. Even in the case of an unusual electrical accessory, the variations are superficial: a stainless-steel switch instead of a white plastic one, or a blue ceramic plaque instead of a metal one.

Through the project Accesorios Espaciales, APRDELESP explores how to give a more spatial quality to some electrical accessories such as switches, outlets, and extension cords. Each spatial accessory consists of a metal plate with unusual proportions designed to integrate a series of commercial elements such as a basket, a bottle opener, a candleholder, a caster, a coat hook, a cover plate, a cup holder, a hook, a key holder, a lamp, a leveling screw, a magazine rack, a mirror, a plant holder, a shelf, a table leg, etc.

Spatial accessories blur the differences between space, furniture, ornament, and accessory. Their heterogeneous design makes them incomplete objects capable of receiving outside elements to integrate them momentarily, suggesting and facilitating other interactions without prescribing every possible activity.2 This ambiguity broadens the possibilities for improvisation, it stimulates experimentation, and it provokes a more complex relationship between people and objects.

Presenting a conventional object in a strange way dislocates everyday life, inciting us to see things differently.

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Accesorio Espacial PL01 Accesorio Espacial PL02 Accesorio Espacial PL03 Accesorio Espacial PL04 Accesorio Espacial PL05 Accesorio Espacial PL06 Accesorio Espacial PL07 Accesorio Espacial PL08 Accesorio Espacial PL09 Accesorio Espacial PL10 Accesorio Espacial PL11 Accesorio Espacial PL12 Accesorio Espacial PL13 Accesorio Espacial PL14 Accesorio Espacial PL15 Accesorio Espacial PL16 Accesorio Espacial PL17 Accesorio Espacial PL18 Accesorio Espacial PL19 Accesorio Espacial PL20 Accesorio Espacial PL21 Accesorio Espacial PL22 Accesorio Espacial PL23 Accesorio Espacial PL24 Accesorio Espacial PL25 Accesorio Espacial PL26 Accesorio Espacial PL27 Accesorio Espacial PL28 Accesorio Espacial PL29 Accesorio Espacial PL30 Accesorio Espacial PL31 Accesorio Espacial PL32 Accesorio Espacial PL33 Accesorio Espacial PL34 Accesorio Espacial PL35 Accesorio Espacial PL36 Accesorio Espacial EX01 (Desk Lamp) Accesorio Espacial EX02 (Coffee Table) Accesorio Espacial EX03 (Coffee Table) Accesorio Espacial EX04 (Bench) Accesorio Espacial EX06 (Side Table) Accesorio Espacial EX07 (Desk) Accesorio Espacial EX09 (Table)

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