I-DO × STUDIOSOPHIEHOSPES

A ghost is what remains when the object is gone.

Ghost of Adolescence is about the years between childhood and adulthood, when you still look at the world with wonder and hold your dreams a little too tightly. Developed as collaboration between I-DO & STUDIOSOPHIEHOSPES, the figure stays in that in-between and refuses to grow out of it. Silver on the outside, black at the core, both finished to a high gloss.

INLINE asks what it means to make something in a world that always exists somewhere else too. A character is a clear case. Before Ghost was an object it was a sketch and a render, developed between an Amsterdam company that builds its own characters and the world around them, and a Swedish studio that works across physical and digital spaces. The object in the room is one appearance of the figure, not its origin.

The makers describe Ghost as a figure of the years between childhood and adulthood — the period when much of what we hold on to is still imagined. The finish carries that idea. Silver on the outside, black at the core, both polished to a high gloss: the surface returns the room and whoever leans in, while the core stays dark. An edition of fifty, numbered and signed, lets the same figure exist in many places at once without becoming any less particular.

I-DO began with collectors who wanted to make the objects they were looking for themselves, and that is the position they bring to the Gallery Lounge, the season’s only duo. Ghost is shown at twenty-five centimetres, the scale of something kept close — made, in I-DO’s own words, to be owned, experienced and identified with.