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We’re Most Likely Strangers

To kick off the new year, Swissnex, Spring Place, and studio Volume present We’re Most Likely Strangers, an evening designed to spark conversations and unexpected connections.

To kick off the new year and welcome you to our new location at space at Spring Place in Tribeca, Swissnex is joining with Brooklyn-based design studio Volume to present We’re Most Likely Strangers, an evening designed to spark conversations and unexpected connections. Inspired by the card game We’re Not Really Strangers, this intervention reimagines its spirit of curiosity and is shaped for the Swissnex community. Think of it as a moment to slow down and meet someone new—where a shift in perspective might start with something as small as what you step into (with just a hint of red)!

Swissnex is collaborating with Volume, a design and creative direction studio based in Brooklyn comprising Lau Huaranga, Furqan Jawed, and Julia Schäfer.  For one evening, they’ll guide us through an experience designed to disarm, connect, and set the tone for the year ahead.

Program

  • 6:00pm – Doors open
  • 6:30pm – Welcome remarks
  • 6:35pm – Speaker: Gabriela Galván
  • 6:45pm – Introduction to Volume
  • 6:55pm – Networking
  • 8:00pm – Event ends
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Event start time

  • New York

    6:00PM

Presenters

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    Bio

    Gabriela Galván

    Artist

    Gabriela Galván’s work centers on exploring the concept of transformation. She creates formal meditations on found and everyday objects, which she uses to activate the relationship between the viewer and the site.

    Working across disciplines—installation, public art, sculpture, drawing, design, performance, and video—she develops site-specific projects informed by research and engagement with the cultural contexts in which she works and lives. Her work unfolds through process-oriented investigations of temporality and ecology, fostering interrelation and multisensory experiences to engage diverse audiences spanning multiple generations and cultural backgrounds.

    Galván’s work has been exhibited in the United States, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, India, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, including institutions such as Kunsthaus Baselland (CH), Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía (ESP),  Zacheta National Gallery (PL). In Mexico at Museo Tamayo, Museo de Arte Moderno, Museo Carrillo Gil, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros and Museo de la Ciudad de México (in collaboration with the Centre George Pompidou) among others

    She has combined her art practice with art education as a guest lecturer at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel (CH), Fashion Institute of Technology (US), Research Foundation of CUNY,(US) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan ( PL) among others.

    She lives and works in New York.

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    Bio

    Volume

    Design Studio

    Volume is a design and creative direction studio based in Brooklyn, led by Lau Huaranga, Furqan Jawed, and Julia Schäfer.

    Volume is driven by collaboration, experimentation, and a commitment to work that resonates culturally and creatively. We pursue meaningful, boundary-pushing projects, prioritizing collaborations with like-minded people we care about and ideas that drive change. Our work spans visual identity, exhibition design, publications, websites, campaigns, and type design. 

Partners

This event is presented by Swissnex in collaboration with Volume and Spring Place.