"Design has become a new art movement" according to Ruben de la Rive Box and Golnar Roshan, who are using industrial design processes to explore the qualities of light, colour and reflection.
The Amsterdam-based design duo, collectively known as Rive Roshan, are presenting a series of sculptural objects and installations in the exhibition Shifting Perspectives, which opens this week at Museum Jan in Amstelveen.
Golnar Roshan and Ruben de la Rive Box. Photo is by Dunja Opalko
These works are designed to highlight natural phenomena, such as the reflection of light on water, or the way a shadow falls on a surface.
De la Rive Box and Roshan refer to these everyday occurrences as "ordinary miracles".
From glass panels that create shifting patterns of colour, to objects made from 3D-printed sand, the pieces on show in Shifting Perspectives are designed primarily to elicit an emotional response, rather than to serve a particular function. Shifting Perspectives is an exhibition exploring light, colour and reflection
"For us, the design world has started to open up to being less about functionality and more about the internal aspect of design," Roshan told Dezeen.
"We don't care as much about functionality as we care about the meaning of something and what it contributes," added De la Rive Box.
At a time when ? as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic ? people are already looking at the world through different eyes, the designers hope to promo...