GABRIEL KURI, Product Testing Unit
exhibition view at altefabrik, Rapperswil, May – July 2016

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installation view Product Testing Unit

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installation view Product Testing Unit

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installation view Product Testing Unit

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installation view Product Testing Unit

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Untitled (Balance Over Consumption), 2016
wooden sawhorse, blankets, Thank you – trays, wood, 123 x 79 x 90 cm

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detail from Untitled (Balance Over Consumption), 2016
wooden sawhorse, blankets, Thank you – trays, wood, 123 x 79 x 90 cm

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all images courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin
photos: ANDREA ROSSETTI

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For the exhibition in Rapperswil, GABRIEL KURI presented older works he categorizes under the “product testing” heading as well as a new series of sculptures created specifically for this project. His works often consist of functional everyday objects and disposable products, which become display objects as sculptures. In KURI’s work, these materials—via their actual functions, visual look and feel—serve as information media, whose usage also says something about the society that produces them.*