Adorno presents ANIMISM: Alcova Milano 2024

Adorno is pleased to announce ‘Animism’, a landmark exhibition of contemporary design and crafts taking place at AlcovaMilano 2024, in a grand room of the historical Villa Bagatti Valsecchi in conjunction with Milano Design Week 2024. The exhibition will investigate the deeper meaning of objects, through the lens of Animism. We talk about pieces as if they’re alive as if they’re people – the sofa goes well with the rug, the lamp has a lot of character, and so on – yet rarely do we entertain the notion that they might truly possess life. While such musings may seem reminiscent of childish fables, throughout nearly all of human history, the animist perspective – that everything, from rocks to rivers, is alive – was the only perspective. Now, the realm of science is steadily expanding the definition of life, challenging our ability to delineate between what is sentient and what is not, beings and things, subjects and objects.