Join Design in the Moment exhibition co-curator Aparna Rao for a presentation on the reinterpretation of the Geoffrey Bawa furniture collection. The talk will address questions around re-crafting iconic furniture designs, examine the meaning of authenticity, and discuss how the process of creating these prototypes has illuminated a design significance beyond the individual pieces.  

Aparna is an artist and furniture designer based in India and Switzerland. She is the co-founder of Bangalore based furniture company Phantom Hands. The company is collaborating with the Geoffrey Bawa Trust for the Design in the Moment exhibition currently on view at the Bawa Space. 

This hour long event will include a presentation followed by questions from the audience.

Aparna Rao is an artist and furniture designer based in India and Switzerland. She is the co-founder of Bangalore based furniture company Phantom Hands and part of the Indo-Danish art duo Pors & Rao, making objects and installations that entwine physical animation and responsive behaviors. Many of their works are conceived as a kind of 'being' with basic behavior patterns, highlighting absurd and involuntary aspects of human behavior and relationships.

In 2017, the duo initiated PATHOS at the Wyss Translational Institute in Zurich with the aim of making robotic puppeteering accessible to artists and non engineers.

Pors & Rao have exhibited at multiple prestigious art events and museums around the world, and in 2017 Aparna was honored as an Ambassador of Indo-Swiss Friendship by the Swiss Federal Council.