What is isolation and lonesomeness? This is the question asked and answered by Clap Studio led by co-founders Jordi Iranzo and Àngela Montagud.
“Emergency situations have the ability to make us stop and think,” said Clap Studio. “As the Danish winemaker Peter Sisseck said about the relationship of people with nature and life ‘We believed we were so smart that we thought we were mastering nature’. And this has been the case until the beginning of 2020.”
“Now that we are all secluded and locked in our homes, mixed feelings invade us. Our sense of community meets our sense of survival. It is an internal struggle. A psychological and feeling struggle.”
“These times of reflection challenge our capacity for creation. It is the time to meditate and value, to share and feel. It is time to create, but how can we represent feelings? How can we make the intangible tangible?” asked Clap Studio.
Attempting to capture and physically represent the lonesomeness that people are currently experiencing, an art installation made from paper has been created. Titled Isolation, the installation takes the form of a cave that simultaneously encloses for protection while metaphorically trapping a subject.
As to practice sustainability in design, the paper used for the Isolation installation is being reused for another experimental project.
