An exhibition and publication on the investigation of design as a carrier bag practice

Opening on November 15, 2024, 7pm
Closing November 21, 2024, 7pm

Visit by appointment, contact: (hello@leajohannabecker.com)
Further information and German version: https://synnika.space/events/bag-full

What if mankind's first tool wasn't the spear, but the carrier bag?

This question is posed by science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin in her essay "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction". Le Guin tells an alternative history of humanity that places collection and the collective above power and growth and "uses storytelling as a tool for shaping the world." It is less about an accurate display of human history than about disrupting familiar narrative structures, rewriting old stories and showing that narratives can change our view of the world and even the world itself.

Following these thoughts, Lea Johanna Becker applies the carrier bag theory to design in the sense of a carrier bag practice. She expands this to include the act of collecting, opening up her work from the individualistic "me" to the collaborative "we". The result is an interdisciplinary exhibition of projects, texts and artistic explorations of bags, the act of collecting, holding and keeping, and of feminist utopias. The exhibition is accompanied by a modular publication, the contents of which can be collected and compiled individually on site.

With works, projects and thoughts by EVJ Bags, Lara Sharleena Böhm, Ines Claus, Louisa Victoria Clever, Carmen Simon Fernandez, Franziska Herbert, Helene Hohmann, Kathleen Judith Hughes, Jesse Jacobsen, Anne Klausmann, Sophia Krayc, Jil Kunkat, Johanna P., Lea Sailer, Lynn Stechert, Robin Theis, Isabella Tritthart, Marisa Velthuis

Synnika e.V.
Niddastraße 57
60329 Frankfurt am Main