The Object is Absent is a multi-strand installation that focuses on the designers' bodies rather than the objects they create, to demonstrate a shift in the priorities for the next generation of makers.
The exhibition at the MU Space in Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week brought together twenty projects across various different media, encompassing theatre, music, film, and even dance.
Co-curators Alexandre Humbert, who teaches at Design Academy Eindhoven, and Lucas Maassen intended the "ever-moving" exhibition to be "experienced and performed as a manifesto for less materialistic design".
They worked alongside Angelique Spaninks from creative network MU and curator and designer Tom Loois to realise the show.

"The upcoming generation of designers are not making things or physical objects any more, but are using their bodies, using dance, using video, using pictures and using sound, as a transmission of storytelling or an emotion," explained Humbert to Dezeen. "There's a real questioning for designers of why shouldn't we use existing objects, or people, or the designers themselves."

Unlike most exhibitions, which focus attention on the objects on display, The Object is Absent instead explored the act of making. It placed the designers, their attitudes, ideas and even their bodies at the centre of the work.
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