Keepsake Box No. 5 “Video Box,” designed by Fabian Bedolla and Jennifer Garcia, includes a video touch screen with contributions by: Rashaad Newsome, Mike Skinner and Olivier Babinet.
We-Are-Familia
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WE-ARE-FAMILIA is an extensive global network of creative individuals from all disciplines whom have come together to explore the powerful, complex ties which consciously and unconsciously touch all that we experience as humans. Spearheaded by Creative Director Jennifer Garcia, their primary ongoing project is a series of 25 one-of-a kind keepsake boxes showcasing original “mementos” contributed by its family of 50 artists and artisans.
The keepsake boxes themselves are an elegant assembly of found objects and discarded furniture fragments. Both strange and beautiful, nostalgic and contemporary, the We-Are-Familia keepsake boxes offer unexpected juxtapositions, a new and exotic understanding of ordinary things. Keepsake Box No. 5 – “Video Box”, (designed by Fabian Bedolla and Jennifer Garcia) uses a set of mismatched Victorian style table legs to eccentrically support a weathered medicine cabinet, purposely left as is to highlight its history. The original hinging mirrored door is retrofitted with a video touch screen, carefully positioned to showcase its video and sound contents, including a piece by Rashaad Newsome of Brooklyn, New York who is scheduled to exhibit at the Whitney Biennial 2010.
WE-ARE-FAMILIA’s keepsake box project launched at Parisian design superstore Colette followed by exhibitions at Open Space in Beacon, New York, Reed Space in New York City and Fountain Miami Beach. For its March 2010 exhibition at Fountain New York, WE-ARE-FAMILIA presents Keepsake Boxes Nos. 5 through 8 of 25 in addition to new work by art clan members Jeff Lewis, Tine Lundsfryd, Marc McAndrews, Thundercut, Change Design, Tobias Zarius, David Trumpf and Jesse Brown.