I like Acid Baths - Electric Transmutations

“Nothing is lost, Nothing is created, everything is transformed”, Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier. Studio Minale-Maeda developed an electro-galvanic manufacturing process which allows to grow solid metal objects inside reusable moulds through the use of electricity. At the end of their usable life parts can be recycled without degradation through the same process. The parts are durable and precise and the process consumes very little energy. Along with a working setup for manufacturing parts on site, a number of items and accessories reinvented through the process in combination with diverse materials will be shown. Simplicity, durability and aesthetics are brought together in ways defying convention while everything can be disassembled back into versatile and unique elements that can be transformed or combined differently to allow for changing tastes at a moments whim. Finely crafted and decorated parts go along with parts liberally showing their organically grown forms and textures, precise joinery goes along with metals used glue and tape of sorts. Objects of different scale bring together a variety of forms, colours and finishes that make one wonder what acid was in the bathwater. The contemporary situation and its questions without answers calls for crossing boundaries we do not even know exist.