Intervention on Phillipe Starck

Repair Shop 2, Izmir, 2015

“What do you do if you have Phillipe Starck’s design for a citrus squeezer; the Juicy Salif, and one of its legs is broken? Repairing it may not only be an act of fixing something broken, but it may also be a design approach.” -Miné Ovacık
 
The Repair Shop 2 exhibition was held as the final project of the graduate course, Responsible Design, coordinated by Miné, in which she also put her design work: Intervention on Philip Starck. For this exhibition, she got two Juicy Salifs, one had a broken leg and the other one was whole. She replaced the broken leg with a wire one. As for the whole one, she stretched a wire-weaved triangle surface between its three legs as a lemon-seed catcher, which in fact resembled a G-String. The pink wire replacement leg aimed to fix by alienating. Fixing this broken Juicy Salif was one way of respecting Starck and his design in its 25th anniversary. The second approach added one more function which was missing in his design. Adding this was being a little highbrow. So, actually, both interventions were an act of repairing.

Check the Student Works which were displayed in this exhibition as part of the Spring 2015 Responsible Design graduate course, coordinated by Miné
Read the Manifest written by Miné

Artists:
Aslı Topal, Bahtiyar Uzunbaz, Can Güvenir, Mine Ovacık, Mustafa Toygar, İpek Candaş Atay, Zeynep Kurşun

Curated by Mine Ovacık and coordinator of the graduate course titled SANT / ARDE 552 Responsible Design. This exhibition was held by the final of the course.

Hosted by Peri Art Gallery, Alacatı Izmir
Poster Design by Şevket Türkel
Catalogue Graphic design by Can Güvenir
Photography by Miné