b. 2018
LABINAC is a design collective founded in 2018 by Maria Thereza Alves, Jimmie Durham and Kai-Morten Vollmer, with the dual purpose of designing and making objects (furniture, chandeliers, and other elements of interior design) and supporting the design works of Indigenous peoples in Latin America, of which the artists have been staunch defenders throughout their lives.
LABINAC was initiated with the intention of being a collective open to other artists and designers. Alves and Durham invited Elisa Strinna, Jone Kvie and Victor Santamarina who through their research and their works have enhanced the range of potential ideas while also questioning the role of design today, the thin line between the arts, and the possibility for experimentation that different available materials offer.