The works of designers from the Objects of Common Interest studio are “embedded” in the permanent exhibition of the museum and sculpture garden, opened by Isamu Noguchi in 1985.

The Isamu Noguchi Museum, located in Queens, in a former factory building, holds an exhibition of modern American designers. Objects of different functionality, created by Eleni Petaloti and Leonidas Trumpukis from the Objects of Common Interest studio, were integrated into the permanent exhibition of the museum. 

The title of the exhibition “Hard, Soft, luminous and Inappropriate” indicates the variety of artifacts that designers and curators have inscribed into the interiors of the museum and the sculpture garden created by Noguchi himself. Many of them seem to be a kind of “relatives” of the exhibits, others come into conflict with them or an active dialogue. 

What unites the studio’s works is their borderline position at the junction of design and sculpture, an area that Noguchi was particularly interested in. The Objects of Common Interest intervention allows you to see the sculptor’s works in a new way and think about the modern interpretation of his ideas, which are given by Petaloti and Trumpukis. The exhibition runs until February 13, 2022.

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