ATLANTA, GA.- This June, the High Museum of Art will debut “Los Porfiados (The Stubborns),” a group of monumental, interactive sculptures by Chilean creative studio gt2P in its Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza. On view June 5-Nov. 29, this installation will be the 10th in the High’s multiyear series of inclusive and playful projects to activate its outdoor space.

Inspired by the classic roly-poly wobbling toy, known in Chile as “mono porfiado,” this installation comprises a landscape of 14 inflatable, limber sculptures, some measuring up to 17 feet tall, and invites visitors to interact with their pliable surfaces. These sculptures will come to life through human interaction and play, transforming the Piazza with collective movement that explores collaboration and the construction of public space. When activated, the sculptures become a living metaphor for resilience, understood not as rigidity but as adaptability: the capacity to move with others, to be displaced and to return to balance through shared effort, persistence and care. Each sculpture responds to individual action while also becoming part of a larger whole, created by accumulated gestures.

Comparable in scale to Stonehenge, the forms recall both the earliest stone tools — those that enabled human survival — and the first ritual structures that connected humans on a grander level. Their structure echoes a distant past, when design was born of necessity. But in these sculptures, those ancestral forms are reimagined as soft, rounded bodies, anchored to the ground and balanced with internal weights that allow them to sway gently.

“With the anticipated surge of travelers visiting Atlanta this summer from all over the world, this installation has the potential to bring people together to experience joy and a sense of community through gt2P’s work,” said Rand Suffolk, the High’s director.

“I’m thrilled to be able to share the joyful optimism of gt2P with Atlanta,” said the High’s Curator of Decorative Arts and Design Monica Obniski. “The prototypes of ‘Los Porfiados (The Stubborns)’ debuted at the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial, but the fully realized, interactive, inflatable sculptures will have the opportunity to spread out over the Piazza, cheerfully greeting visitors to the museum.”

Founded in 2009, gt2P (great things to People) is a Chilean studio merging digital tools with traditional craft through a methodology called “paracrafting.” Led by Guillermo Parada, Tamara Pérez, Sebastián Rozas, and Victor Imperiale, their work spans collectible design, public art and architecture. Projects include Suple: Bounding Form (Design Museum London), Conscious Actions (Design Miami), and two 2024 public installations in California. Their Remolten series explores volcanic materials as a sculptural medium. gt2P has exhibited at Chicago Architecture Biennial (2025), La Biennale di Venezia (2025), the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and the National Museum of 21st Century Arts (MAXXI), with works held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Victoria, and the Denver Art Museum, among others. gt2P is represented by Friedman Benda.