HARD FEELINGS
by Objects of Common Interest
Perched above the urban context, two forms establish a relation without agreement.
They do not unify, nor resolve into a system. They remain distinct, and through this distinction become legible to one another.
A triangle and a cube: not symbols, not objects, but limits. Each marks the boundary of the other.
Their coexistence does not produce meaning, but condition. What emerges is a field of tension, where proximity sustains difference rather than dissolving it.
Within this field, affect is not expressed but generated—detached from narrative, without subject, without resolution.
Hard feelings persist, not as emotion, but as a condition of relation.
Eleni Petaloti and Leonidas Trampoukis are a duo operating the studio Objects of Common Interest, working within the realm of art and design and architecture, blending projects in scale from objects and installations to interactive immersive environments and interior spaces. 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 in an amalgamation of thinking and making between two diverse poles, Greece, and New York.
