For this year's edition of Europalia, Belgium's Grand-Hornu has tasked British designer duo Doshi Levien with curating and designing an exhibition focusing on everyday Indian objects. Courtesy GHI. Photography: Michel De Cubber

这个项目的关键是在大霍努举办的“活物：为印度制造”的展览，在英国的设计二重奏多什·莱文将每天的艺术品从广阔的次大陆带到比利时。

夫妻俩Jonathan Levien和Nipa Doshi在伦敦皇家艺术学院学习家具设计时，在毕业后不久就成立了自己的设计工作室。Doshi出生于孟买，深受印度视觉文化和工艺的影响。与此同时，来自苏格兰的Levie-借鉴了更传统的工业设计背景。正是他们独特的洲际设计情调使他们成为画廊实现展览的第一站。

“我问自己的第一个问题是：是谁的”每天“？”Doshi解释道。

即使是最平凡的物体，其中许多是未经训练的设计师手工制作的，都充满了一种往往是无意的精致视觉力量。

Doshi说：“在印度生活最让我印象深刻的是日常礼仪的性感。”

这一构思在展览的布局中得到了进一步的回应，它通过功能系统地对物体进行分组，整齐地排列在色彩鲜艳的集市上。这个节目的入口处是一个松散的国会大厦模型，有一系列的官僚主义文章在展览，正在进步以梳理小摆设、宗教标志，接着是大量的饮食和烹饪表演，最后结束一个关于清洁的部分——一个重要的RIT。印度文化中的母语。

展览的核心是印度的多元化。通过展示这些日常用品，Doshi总结道，“我们打开了一扇门或一扇通往另一个人世界的窗户。”

Doshi Levien systematically grouped the objects by their function in the home, arranging them neatly atop colourful bazaar-inspired plinths. Courtesy GHI. Photography: Michel De Cubber

The show's entrance is loosely modelled after a government building, with a selection of bureaucratic and paper paraphernalia on display in the first section of the exhibition. Photography: Serge Anton

The next section is an abstraction of a shrine for sacred offerings. Nipa Doshi explains: 'I find it very interesting that in India, religion, sacred life and spirituality are intertwined with everyday culture. Every place is dedicated with a shrine, and that to me is very unique to the country. There is no conflict between spirituality and commerce.' Courtesy GHI. Photography: Michel De Cubber

Traditional religious tokens found in an Indian home or shop include: an idol of a chosen deity, sacred offerings, incense and sandalwood crushed into paste with a mortar and pestle. Photography: Serge Anton

The third display is a basic interpretation of a woman's dressing table. 'In India we have the concept of "shringar". Traditionally there were sixteen steps for a woman to get dressed, but of course, no one does that anymore,' says Doshi. 'Even still, there is a ritual of dressing up in the morning - not just dressing up to go somewhere but to really adorn the body, and to present yourself to the world.' Courtesy GHI. Photography: Michel De Cubber

Among the myriad of grooming products on show: skin whitening products, 'Sandoz' calcium tablets, Johnson's baby powder (Doshi quips that she thought this was an Indian product, when she was growing up, due to its prevalance in the country), hair oil, henna paste, jewellery boxes and mass-produced plastic combs. Photography: Serge Anton

Next, an exhibit dedicated to India's utility makers who work on the streets. 'We don’t necessarily have big factories - the streets are factories,' says Doshi. Courtesy GHI. Photography: Michel De Cubber

'Virtually every middle class family has a gardener working in their garden,' continues Doshi. 'They also have someone to iron their clothes. The vendors who sell vegetables have a weighing scale that seems like its from 200 years ago'. Photography: Serge Anton

A collection of various electrics, including a custom-made switchboard crafted from wood, which is quite common in India. Doshi has thrown in a pair of candlesticks too, a tongue-in-cheek nod to the country's frequent power outages. Photography: Serge Anton

Metal, wood, and silicon hammers. The softer hammer is used to beat stainless steel utensils and cooking vessels back into shape. 'I love the fluorescent pink,' muses Doshi. 'To me it says something about the maker's idea of what is an aesthetic product. I can't imagine an engineer in England ever making a hammer pink.' Photography: Serge Anton

A selection of bespoke handmade scissors found in the markets. Photography: Serge Anton

'Eating and cooking is the biggest area of the exhibition,' says Doshi. 'Cuisine is something that keeps people rooted to culture and here, you can see an Indian kitchen is still very much an Indian kitchen.' Courtesy GHI. Photography: Michel De Cubber

Examples of different cooking pots, which usually come stacked and stored inside each other, while the handles come separately. Courtesy GHI. Photography: Michel De Cubber

The section includes a variety of utensils unique to the Indian kitchen, such as a dedicated grater for scooping out the inside of a coconut...

...and tarka bowls for heating oil. Photography: Serge Anton

Water vessels, too, come in endless shapes, styles and forms. Photography: Serge Anton

The final volume of the show is dedicated to cleaning, perhaps the most important ritual in Indian culture. Doshi concludes: 'Most people don’t start their day without having a bath, because you cannot make a sacred offering unless you are clean or enter the kitchen before you are washed. There are a lot of ideas about how these rituals are rooted in spirituality and sacredness.' Photography: Serge Anton

A working sketch by Doshi Levien for the design of the exhibition. Photography: Serge Anton

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