If Only We Knew

With cultural time seemingly at a standstill and the dialectic seemingly glitched, If Only We Knew considers what design or making can offer to bring poignancy and presence to the everyday things we live and interact with in our homes.

As live-in caretaker at Heide MOMA, Carmine Frascarelli used the disruptions around him and sourced materials for these works from the many changes surrounding Heide: the North East Link tunnel project and the demolition of the Yarra Valley Country Club next door. Rather than paint a picture, take a photo or write a poem, he attempts to use design and furniture to chart the intersection of the flows of history and place as a coordinate in an ongoing cartography of change and repetition, rather than a trendy product line. These works become stopping points where questions can be honed about what it means to want or need the new, the more, the next.