Bondi is a slang word that refers to public urban transport in Argentina. Grupo Bondi is a studio/laboratory based in Buenos Aires, led since 2008 by Iván López Prystajko and Eugenio Gómez Llambí. Both industrial designers from FADU-UBA, they design and produce by recovering the poetic universe of everyday objects. Consumer products function as an expressive medium; instead of writing a song or painting a picture, they create a piece of furniture.

Grupo Bondi is proof that it is possible to think about the world from the pe- riphery while simultaneously being seen from the center as contemporaries. In design terms, it is about updating the question that Borges posed to literature: How do you traverse the cultural center from the periphery? To make the margin an aesthetic, a poetics, a form.

Grupo Bondi understands that the 21st century is the century of the periph- ery's reclamation: knowing your limits is discovering your possibilities.
The work of Grupo Bondi oscillates between the micro of anecdote and frag- ment and the macro of the mystical and the universal.
For Bondi, the art of the future society is that which merges with industry, which dedicates itself to it.

Their works are not functional to the superficial and imme- diate consumption of design. The contradictions within their works spark de- bates, and it is there that their richness lies: presenting the sinister, the exagger- ation, and the lie as artistic matter.

Surprise is a structural part of the work and a strategy that establishes a dia- logue with the viewer, who, willingly or unwillingly, is forced to dismantle the illusion’s artifice and become complicit. Through this transgression of limits, absolute certainties and the institutions that sustain them are undermined.

Grupo Bondi is, above all, a poetic-political gesture.

“I don’t want to go to the moon, I like it here, I like it here, I like it here.” (Federico Manuel Peralta Ramos)