The “cabinet of commodities” is incorporating a request from Perrakis Papers to display paper samples for packaging applications. By substituting “curiosities” with “commodities,” we are aiming to address the difficult topic of basic human needs and the challenging speculation around them. Those packagings for packaging play a game that balances between commodification and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Through “curious” paper-thin surfaces, we address the delicate boundary between “need” and “needless” attempting an open relational word game. The word “fire” is displayed on the outside of a matchbox, and when opened, it appears linked to the word “love” in the inside. On pasta packaging, we are reading “safety,” “community,” and “ritual.” Inside a golden box with “time” on the lid, we find encapsulated the words “hope” and “purpose”. In other words, the seemingly ordinary objects surrounding us could, in our perspective, be processed as existential literature.
The “cabinet of commodities” is incorporating a request from Perrakis Papers to display paper samples for packaging applications. By substituting “curiosities” with “commodities,” we are aiming to address the difficult topic of basic human needs and the challenging speculation around them. Those packagings for packaging play a game that balances between commodification and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Through “curious” paper-thin surfaces, we address the delicate boundary between “need” and “needless” attempting an open relational word game. The word “fire” is displayed on the outside of a matchbox, and when opened, it appears linked to the word “love” in the inside. On pasta packaging, we are reading “safety,” “community,” and “ritual.” Inside a golden box with “time” on the lid, we find encapsulated the words “hope” and “purpose”. In other words, the seemingly ordinary objects surrounding us could, in our perspective, be processed as existential literature.