Fragile Obsolescence

A society in a hurry

We live in a frantic, ever-changing society, where everything ages fast. Objects are replaced before they even break. What was new yesterday already seems outdated.

Fragile Obsolescence is the story of this path. It is a path that concerns not only things, but also people.

Objects and people

People, like objects, are sometimes considered outdated and useless. It happens above all to women: when their role changes, when they stop matching an image, when society decides they have already given what they had to give.

This is a reflection on the human condition. Placing a discarded object next to a life that has been set aside means asking who decides what still has value and what no longer does.

The strength for rebirth

And yet what is thrown away keeps something. Forgotten objects hold the memory of a use, of a hand, of a story. People keep, intact, the strength for rebirth.

This is why the works of Agile-Fragile are born from humble and salvaged materials: paper, cardboard, feathers, and scraps. Put together with care, they become figures that can stand.

From fragility to antifragility

Fragility is not the end of the road. It is the point from which one can start again. Those who have been considered outdated can turn that wound into a new strength, not in spite of fragility, but through it.

This is the passage the works try to show: from fragility to antifragility, from being set aside to returning to the centre of one’s own life.