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INSTALLATION / 2021.12

Gender.

A participatory installation exploring everyday objects and gender associations. Familiar objects are recreated in clear resin, inviting visitors to place them on the colors they associate with them.

Everyday objects reimagined in clear resin
FIG. 01 / GENDER Everyday objects reimagined in clear resin
PROJECT TYPE
Individual project
DATE
2021.12
MEDIUM & METHODS
Participatory Installation / 3D Printing / Clear Resin
01 / THE QUESTION

Why do we assign
gender to objects?

Everyday objects often carry gendered expectations. Their colors, materials, functions, and familiar contexts can shape how we perceive them.

Gender begins with these associations: when familiar colors and material cues are softened but recognizable forms remain, do we still interpret and categorize objects through gender?

Transparent everyday object models against a black background
FIG. 02 Recognizable forms, rendered in clear resin.
02 / MATERIAL & FORM

Familiar forms.
Different cues.

I recreated everyday objects as 3D-printed clear resin models, giving otherwise different objects a shared material quality.

Transparency does not erase an object’s meaning. It preserves its form while changing the visual cues available to the viewer.

CLEAR RESIN / 3D PRINTING
03 / FORM STUDIES

From outline to object

Sketches explore the forms and structures of the objects. Through 3D printing, these studies become physical pieces that visitors can pick up, examine, and place.

Front, side, and top-view sketches of everyday objects, including a hammer, lipstick, and a cup
FIG. 03 Studies of object form and structure.
04 / PARTICIPATION

Where would
you place it?

Visitors choose a 3D-printed object and place it on the color they associate with it. Each placement turns a personal perception into a visible spatial relationship.

A visitor placing a transparent object on the color spectrum
FIG. 04 A visitor chooses a position based on their own associations.
  1. 01

    Choose

    Pick up an object and observe its form.

  2. 02

    Associate

    Consider which color you associate with it.

  3. 03

    Place

    Place the object on your chosen color.

05 / EXHIBITION

Making perceptions
visible

Transparent objects and a color spectrum form the installation. By placing the objects, visitors contribute their own interpretations of familiar things.

This participatory format opens up questions about how we categorize objects and the gender stereotypes embedded in those choices.

Transparent everyday objects arranged on a circular color spectrum
FIG. 05 Transparent objects arranged in relation to the spectrum.
06 / FURTHER QUESTIONS

Each placement opens
another question.

In future iterations, I would like to record where different visitors place the objects, exploring how their interpretations vary.

Which associations come from an object’s form, and which come from lived experience? The installation offers a starting point for continuing this inquiry.