Je suis un designer, commissaire d’exposition et scénographe. J’entrelace les pratiques et en interroge les buts. Je passe par l’objet, l’écrit, l’espace ou la vidéo pour rendre compte de certaines mutations techniques de notre temps et de leurs effets. Davantage qu’une succession de projets, mon travail est un argumentaire continu, parfois contradictoire, à propos de nos objets du quotidien et de leurs possibles écologies, se situant quelque part entre le romantisme et les sciences de l’ingénieur.
Mon travail aboutit souvent à des expositions, que j’envisage comme un lieu de vie abritant des visiteurs, mais aussi des médiatrices, des agents d’entretien, traversé de diverses infrastructures techniques et enjeux politiques. Elle est, de ce fait, porteuse d’un cahier des charges spécifique régi par des usagers qui le sont tout autant. L’exposition devient mon sujet, mêlant objets montrant et objets montrés, dans une pratique qui varie de la scénographie à la proposition artistique en fonction des contextes et commandes. J’aime en revendiquer la dimension évènementielle et que son éphémérité soit représentée autant que conçue.
De l’espace, je migre vers l’objet et inversement, sans qu’il n’y ait véritablement de distinction entre les deux: je conçois des objets non clos, poreux avec leurs environnements dans lesquels ils s’inscrivent, confiant dans le fait que ce sont eux qui dictent nos usages des espaces.
Cette recherche expérimentale a été exposée, entre autres, à la Villa Noailles, au Pavillon de l’Arsenal, au Vitra Design Museum, à la Triennale de Milan et à la Biennale de Porto. Je l’augmente par le biais de collaborations et de workshops, mais également en la restituant sous la forme d’articles et de conférences.
Re(`)fe(`)rences
Agora pour la recherche en design
AOC
Constructlab
Ensci - Les Ateliers
ENSAD Paris
ENSAD Nancy
Fondation Martell
Institut Français
Institut Français Milano
Koozarch
Le Voyage à Nantes
Ministère de la Culture
Pavillon de l’Arsenal
Pli magazine
Porto Design Biennale
Triennale Milano
Villa Noailles
Ville de Paris
La Villette
ZKU Berlin
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Collaboratorices
@juliettegelli
@romainguillet.studio
@collectifdallas
@calage_nickel
@atelier_parades
@nolwenn.turlin
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I am a designer, curator and scenographer. I interweave practices and question their aims. I use objects, writing, space or video to report on certain technical mutations of our time and their effects. More than a succession of projects, my work is a continuous argument, sometimes contradictory, about our everyday objects and their possible ecologies, somewhere between romantism and ingeneering.
My works often evolves as exhibitions, which I see as a living space housing visitors, but also mediators and maintenance workers, crossed by various technical infrastructures and political issues. It is, therefore, the bearer of specifications governed by users. The exhibition is my main subject, mixing showing and shown objects in a practice that varies from the scenography to the artistic proposal depending on the contexts and commisions. I like to claim it as events and insist on their ephemerality, which I try to mak as visible as conceived.
From space, I migrate towards the object and vice versa, without there being any distinction between the two. I design unenclosed, porous objects with their environments, confident in the fact that they are the ones who dictate our uses of them.
This experimental research has been exhibited, among others, at the Villa Noailles, the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, the Vitra Design Museum, the Milan Triennale and the Porto Biennale. I increase it through collaborations and workshops, but also by presenting it in the form of articles and conferences.
My works often evolves as exhibitions, which I see as a living space housing visitors, but also mediators and maintenance workers, crossed by various technical infrastructures and political issues. It is, therefore, the bearer of specifications governed by users. The exhibition is my main subject, mixing showing and shown objects in a practice that varies from the scenography to the artistic proposal depending on the contexts and commisions. I like to claim it as events and insist on their ephemerality, which I try to mak as visible as conceived.
From space, I migrate towards the object and vice versa, without there being any distinction between the two. I design unenclosed, porous objects with their environments, confident in the fact that they are the ones who dictate our uses of them.
This experimental research has been exhibited, among others, at the Villa Noailles, the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, the Vitra Design Museum, the Milan Triennale and the Porto Biennale. I increase it through collaborations and workshops, but also by presenting it in the form of articles and conferences.