Theaster Gates debuted his exhibition “True Value” at the Fondazione Prada in 2016. The show prominently featured its eponymous installation, for which Gates transported the entire contents of a hardware store and reassembled it in the Fondazione, using the shifting frameworks as a means of conversation around the various socio-economic and cultural networks of the hardware store.
For the installation, we designed a circular intended to reference the setting, complete with silhouettes of tools and other hardware store equipment. This design inspired our creation of a graphic wall for the show, comprised of wall cutouts in the same silhouetted patterns.
