APRDELESP: Accesorios Espaciales

At the banquet, I first became acquainted with the corn tortilla, which intrigued me as it was, at the same time, a fork, spoon, and bread.

—Gutierre Tibón

For the first solo exhibition by APRDELESP at AGO Projects, we present a showroom for the launch of Accesorios Espaciales, a new brand of electrical accessories.

In traditional design processes, electrical accessories are given little importance. They are commonly added last, after designing walls, ceilings, or floors, and sometimes even after tables, sofas, or chairs. Their placement generally follows standardized criteria: an outlet near a desk, 30 centimeters high, or a switch at the entrance of a room, 120 centimeters high. Architects draw them on floor plans with a symbol that does not reflect their shape, color, or texture: for example, represents a switch, an outlet, a USB outlet, and D a dimmer. Even in the case of an unusual electrical accessory, the variations are superficial: a stainless-steel switch instead of a white plastic one, or a blue ceramic plaque instead of a metal one.

Through the project Accesorios Espaciales, APRDELESP explores how to give a more spatial quality to some electrical accessories such as switches, outlets, and extension cords. Each spatial accessory consists of a metal plate with unusual proportions designed to integrate a series of commercial elements such as a basket, a bottle opener, a candleholder, a caster, a coat hook, a cover plate, a cup holder, a hook, a key holder, a lamp, a leveling screw, a magazine rack, a mirror, a plant holder, a shelf, a table leg, etc.

Spatial accessories blur the differences between space, furniture, ornament, and accessory. Their heterogeneous design makes them incomplete objects capable of receiving outside elements to integrate them momentarily, suggesting and facilitating other interactions without prescribing every possible activity. This ambiguity broadens the possibilities for improvisation, it stimulates experimentation, and it provokes a more complex relationship between people and objects.

Presenting a conventional object in a strange way dislocates everyday life, inciting us to see things differently.

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