Think of the things we long for, and of the things themselves through which longing speaks. This collection presents such “objects of desire” as carriers of memory, mystery, and yearning.

Everyday items — wooden spoons, a glass bottle, a laboratory cylinder — are lifted out of their usual roles and placed in new constellations. Desire here is not only tied to the erotic, but also to the ordinary, the necessary, the tangible.

The artist
Jaap Bos works in a lineage from Dada and Surrealism to Arte Povera: objects stripped from function and infused with new meanings. A spoon suggests both nourishment and loss, a bottle both protection and distance, a blossom both memory and promise.

Through these juxtapositions, the familiar turns strange, the useful becomes poetic. Objects of Desire reveals how longing is directed not only at the exceptional, but also at the everyday — echoing our own hunger for care, connection, and meaning.