C41 #19

C41 Magazine is published twice a year, presenting in each issue a spotless selection of contemporary visual contents from all over the world.

C41 Magazine Issue 19 — Tactile Realities

Utility has been sacrificed on the altar of spectacle. But what does the world truly need today?

The world needs friction. It needs objects that offer resistance, materials that change over time, that wear out, preserving the memory of the gestures of both their creators and their users. Design and fashion must rediscover the courage of utility—understood not as mere grey, sterile functionalism, but as an ethical responsibility towards the space we occupy.

To touch means exposing oneself to error; tell us, then, if we are wrong.