Bringing together upcycled functional glassworks and objects designed and produced by glass artist Felekşan Onar’s Glass Studio, Surplus emphasises the positive impact of contemporary design. Alluding to design’s impact on social equality, the exhibition presents a series of designs composed of scrapped glass parts, all of which are leftovers from production. Onar responds to the linear “take-make-dispose” system with a sustainable and holistic production model, demonstrating that parts which are usually discarded could be pieces of art.
The exhibition praising this delicate material and its precise craftsmanship, aims to convey the spiritual aspect of human labour, and invites the producers and consumers both to envision a different future.