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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05 SHAKES
DOC 038—050
YEAR: 2025/Ongoing
Shakes is an ongoing sculptural series produced over several years using large plastic drinking glasses sourced locally at each place of production. Every iteration reflects its immediate environment: materials, colors, and compositions change according to what is available at a specific moment and location.
Rather than following a fixed formal intention, the works register shifts in context over time. Each piece becomes a localized record, embedding traces of place, period, and circumstance within a familiar and accessible form.
Borrowing the visual language of smoothies or milkshakes — objects associated with immediacy and consumption — the sculptures translate a fleeting image into a stable physical presence. The glass functions as a vertical platform, replacing the canvas, where accumulation substitutes for representation.
The series operates as a dispersed archive, where repetition allows variation to emerge. What appears playful at first reveals itself as a temporal marker, capturing changing environments through material assembly and preserving moments of production within a continuous body of work.
Rather than following a fixed formal intention, the works register shifts in context over time. Each piece becomes a localized record, embedding traces of place, period, and circumstance within a familiar and accessible form.
Borrowing the visual language of smoothies or milkshakes — objects associated with immediacy and consumption — the sculptures translate a fleeting image into a stable physical presence. The glass functions as a vertical platform, replacing the canvas, where accumulation substitutes for representation.
The series operates as a dispersed archive, where repetition allows variation to emerge. What appears playful at first reveals itself as a temporal marker, capturing changing environments through material assembly and preserving moments of production within a continuous body of work.
