SUSPICIOUS OBJECTS

12.06.
– 28.06.25

FUSE Concept Space
Molkenstrasse 21, 8004 Zurich

ALEXANDRA GERBER
ANNA ZIMMERMANN
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GERLADINE RECKER & JOHANNES OSWALD
GUY MELDEM
HÉLOÏSE COLRAD
JOHANNA ROTH with LEO ORNSTEIN & SOFIA FERRARI
LOUISE VERSTRAETE & AURÉLIE DEFEZ
LUCAS MUÑOZ
MATTEO BAUER BORNEMANN
NICOLAS ZANONI
PILZ X HSZI398
ZATO

Some objects don’t fully conform. They borrow familiar forms, but shift configurations — combining elements in ways that sit slightly outside the
expected. A stool on skateboard wheels. A lighting fixture that behaves like a prop or a phone charger cast like a bowl of ice. Gestures and materials collide, sometimes pointing toward function, other times toward fiction. Suspicious Objects brings together designers, artists, and architects whose works resist fixed roles — responding to the ambiguity of contemporary use, the overflow of material life, and a refusal to play by the usual categories.

Set within FUSE — a fast-paced concept space known for its curated mix of fashion, furniture, and events — the exhibition plays with expectations. Pieces drift between product and prop, sculpture and suggestion. Materials are repurposed, formats borrowed. Some works sit quietly in the room. Others interfere.

This collaboration brings together two distinct but complementary rhythms: FUSE’s immediate, high-energy pulse and Second Nature’s slower, process-led curating. Rather than following fixed programs, both treat exhibitions as open frameworks — responsive to context, grounded in intuition, and open to play. Together, they create space for overlapping sensibilities and for objects that shift between categories, tempos, and ways of being seen.

Suspicious Objects
A collaboration between FUSE Concept Space
and SECOND NATURE PROJECTS