“Lucent” brings together the latest research into light conducted by Sabine Marcelis, Australian but based in Rotterdam: Dawn Light and Voie Lights – neon strips immersed or combined with resin – analyse the relationship between light and colour, transparency and saturation; diversely, the Seeing Glass series (with Brit van Nerven) explores the optical effects created by glass with different colours and levels.

“Drawn to production” analyses reflections on the creative process by the Norway’s Sigve Knutson (born 1991). “What would a designer’s work be like if the rules of drawing were applied at all stages of the production process?”, he asks via his poetic and abstract sculptures.

“From Below” is a Philipp Weber study of fossil coal and its transformation at 1,000 degrees centigrade in the total absence of oxygen, when coal does not burn but loses its volatile components and becomes almost pure carbon. Philipp designed and built a miniature coke oven with which to experiment this process and turn the coal into a collection of geometric forms and prisms.

Do objects have an innate character? Are they vehicles for the history of different species? To answer these questions, Matteo Cibic produced 365 vases – one for each day of the year. Born as a personal investigation of the relationships between form, colour and height, “Vaso Naso” became an analysis of object groups, as if genealogical lineages sharing somatic features and similar characters and colours.