EREZ NEVI PANA

BLEACHED

"It’s an expression which encourages reflection and re-thinking about materials we use as designers, buy as consumers, and neglect as a society"

BLEACHED for FRIEDMAN BENDA

Bleached is the product of a five-year investigation of the material applications of salt. Motivated by the consequences of mineral extraction in the Dead Sea, with this series Nevi Pana imagines a possible constructive outcome from humanity’s interference with nature. For Bleached, Nevi Pana submerges wooden structures encased in loofah into the Dead Sea—leaving them to crystallize like coral formations. Transforming these minerals into otherworldly, architectural forms, Nevi Pana comments on the convergence of the organic with the ornate.

COLLECTIONS:
Design Museum Gent
Frac Grand Large