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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01 SIDEWALK VEILS
DOC 001—006
YEAR: 2015/Ongoing
A series of fragments of temporary pedestrian sidewalks have been collected from construction sites encountered across the city. Installed to maintain circulation during periods of transformation, these platforms form a discreet and provisional layer of urban architecture — functional structures designed to disappear once construction ends.
Recovered during dismantling phases, the elements bear traces of use, exposure, and demolition. Originally conceived as short-term infrastructure, they are reassembled with stone components to produce a series of unique lamps.
The work shifts material from an ephemeral urban condition into a permanent domestic presence. Light operates as a continuation rather than a transformation, extending the lifespan of elements already shaped by time and circumstance.
Each piece preserves the tension between temporary function and lasting object, where dismantling becomes a moment of transition rather than conclusion.
Recovered during dismantling phases, the elements bear traces of use, exposure, and demolition. Originally conceived as short-term infrastructure, they are reassembled with stone components to produce a series of unique lamps.
The work shifts material from an ephemeral urban condition into a permanent domestic presence. Light operates as a continuation rather than a transformation, extending the lifespan of elements already shaped by time and circumstance.
Each piece preserves the tension between temporary function and lasting object, where dismantling becomes a moment of transition rather than conclusion.
