Temporal Reflections
by Objects of Common Interest
Light, reflection, and material memory unfold through a new series of luminous objects, translucent forms that hold and release color with every shift in perspective. These pieces transform reflection into radiance, and solidity into a more fluid, immaterial presence.
Set within an entirely white environment, where curtains, carpet, and pedestals subtly dissolve into each other, the installation becomes a suspended field in which color appears to hover in space. Light glides across surfaces and blends into the surroundings, forming quiet gradients that shift with the viewer’s movement.
Like a kaleidoscope reshaping vision with every turn, the work explores the fluid relationship between perception, time, and memory. Each piece becomes a vessel for light, momentary yet enduring, embodying the transient nature of experience.
Ultimately, the concept reflects on how light can act as both memory and material, revealing the invisible rhythms that connect perception to emotion, and the present to what quietly fades away.
Eleni Petaloti and Leonidas Trampoukis are a duo behind the studio Objects of Common Interest, working within the realm of art, design, and architecture, blending projects in scale from objects and installations to interactive immersive environments and interior spaces. They are also founding partners of the sibling studio LOT office for architecture, and they are based between New York and Athens.
Their work has been exhibited at art and design institutions, galleries, and fairs–including solo shows at the Noguchi Museum, Etage Projects, Carwan Gallery, Architecture Biennale, and the Salone del Mobile in Milan. Their work allows various kinds of collaboration such as the partnership with Kvadrat to produce the object/installation Doric Column–Kinetic Object, and public installations such as the project Lights On, which was commissioned by Cultural Capital of Italy 2023. Objects of common interest were formed with the focus on creating still-life installations and experiential environments and objects, demonstrating a fixation with materiality, concept, and tangible spatial experiences. The work roots from an amalgamation of thinking and making between two diverse poles, Greece and New York. Objects of Common Interest were among the judges for Wallpaper* Design Awards for 2023. In the year 2022, they were named ‘Designers of the year’ and won the Wallpaper* Design award 2022. For the last two consecutive years, they have been honorees for the AD100 list 2022 of the top designers and architects and they also won the design prize 2021 for experimentation by Designboom Awards. Their work has been widely featured in the press including The Wall Street Journal, TMagazine, Wallpaper*, Elle Decor, Surface Magazine, Architectural Digest, FRAME, and PHAIDON publishers.
