Assi / Joseph MEIDAN
1987/Ongoing
Working between object, space, and material research. His practice focuses on transformation — observing how materials shaped by construction, use, and time can be redirected through minimal intervention.
His work often begins with situations encountered in everyday environments: construction sites, industrial components, or standardized building systems. Through processes of collection, assembly, and displacement, these elements are recontextualized without erasing their origin.
Moving between unique pieces and evolving systems, his projects explore the moment where functional structures shift into objects of domestic or spatial presence. Light, support, and construction recur as central themes, approached as ongoing investigations rather than fixed forms.
Alongside independent works, he develops Brut Hardware, a modular aluminum framework conceived as an open structure capable of adapting across furniture, exhibition, and architectural contexts.
Photo by Max Mindell
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02 SEE YOU TABLE
DOC 007—016
YEAR: 2018/Ongoing
This table is constructed from a CNC-milled wooden surface combined with precisely cut stone inserts. The wood is shaped through subtraction, forming recessed areas that receive different stones, each introducing its own texture, density, and thermal behavior.
Cut by water-jet, the stone elements act as stable islands across the surface — areas designed to receive warm objects directly, integrating use into the material logic of the piece rather than protecting it through applied layers.
The composition emerges from the assembly of abstract forms that together suggest a face, a recurring figure within the work. The image remains unstable: perceptible from a distance, dissolving into material relationships at close range.
Operating between furniture and topography, the table negotiates softness and permanence, carving and cutting, warmth and resistance, while introducing a subtle ludic narrative — an object that shifts between function, image, and interpretation.
Cut by water-jet, the stone elements act as stable islands across the surface — areas designed to receive warm objects directly, integrating use into the material logic of the piece rather than protecting it through applied layers.
The composition emerges from the assembly of abstract forms that together suggest a face, a recurring figure within the work. The image remains unstable: perceptible from a distance, dissolving into material relationships at close range.
Operating between furniture and topography, the table negotiates softness and permanence, carving and cutting, warmth and resistance, while introducing a subtle ludic narrative — an object that shifts between function, image, and interpretation.
