Three Bodies
For the first time, three design departments at Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art — Industrial Design, Jewelry Design, and Visual Communication — unite in a joint exhibition at the Formshop gallery. Bringing together students, graduates, and faculty, the exhibition creates a cross-disciplinary dialogue exploring the boundaries between two- and three-dimensionality, body and object, and material, image, and space. Industrial Design presents experimental lighting works from its Work Lamp Design course; Jewelry Design examines chains as historical, emotional, and communicative forms; and Visual Communication reconsiders the body as figure, letterform, and material, challenging how visual language shapes perception.
Internal Mechanics
Internal Mechanics is an exhibition that explores a key frontier in contemporary design: the moment when industrial objects move beyond function to carry artistic and emotional meaning. Three young designers present works that resemble familiar furniture or everyday items, yet reveal reflections on body, memory, and consciousness. Assaf Kimmel presents a transforming table that oscillates between play and function; Dor Maimoun uses textiles and prints as a skin-like layer shaped by queer contexts encountered during his studies in Chicago; and Roee Ben Yehuda creates a chair with a hidden drawer that evokes bodily and psychological memory. Together, the works propose industrial design as a poetic, cultural field.