Prior to it’s opening in 2010, between August and October 2009 CeRCCa invited twelve international artist and designers to develop different projects, installations and interventions in CeRCCa spaces. Three workshops of 15 days each were organized with the aim to create permanent structures and atmospheres in different areas of the house. All the installations and interventions had to be developed within a limited budget, recycling and transforming existing and collected furniture and objects and they had to respond to the history and stories of the family house where CeRCCa is based.
With this project CeRCCa wanted to encourage the practice of salvaging and re-imagining objects, spaces and resources from the past, which can be re-used inventively to meet contemporary needs. The result, though minimalist and economic in its aesthetic, was resonant with character and unexpected interventions becoming signs of the possibility of more sustainable and humble ways of producing and creating. Both sustainability and humbleness strategies that in fact shape the philosophy of CeRCCa.
The project would not have been possible without the generosity of Carme Olivella, a passionate collector of antique furniture and objects, who made available lots of valuable material for the development of FURNISH ME! projects as well as thanks to the support of the people of LLorenç del Penedès.
What follows is a selection of the different projects developed between July and September 2009 at CeRCCa.