Rematerialisation of Systems_Bodies
Imaginary Architectures and Rematerialisation of Systems are two parts of a one extended project investigating the idea of the "allusive object". An object that brings together elements of the known, a sense of a shared reality and logic and, at the same time, suggests that these might be wrong, inadequate or simply inexistent in the context that is alluded to. The "allusive object" therefore refers to a different moment, a different state of things, social and production contexts. The model is irrelevant without an intellectual interrogation of the object in relation to this futurable reality, and it is this interrogation what offers us the means to further develop the object itself.
Rematerialisation of Systems expands this viewpoint from the building (Imaginary Architectures) to the system. This shift in interest came through the exploration of more complex assemblages, and exchanging the focus from the typological sintax of each indiviual object to the articulation of a system logic between the parts.
The INDUSTRY series looked at specific types of industrial buildings, distilling the system's logic to its bare systemic essence. These industrial systems can be sketched imprecisely but it is our understanding of their logic what allows us to generate the fantasy.
It is precisely this ability to infer logic from a suggested system what offered us the challenge to engage with much more complex systems and the possibility of translating them into this kind of industrial architecture logic. The BODY series generate abstract models of human reproductive, respiratory and digestive systems as speculative industrial proposals and as a syntax structure.
Body System I, 2014
Borosilicate glass
Body System II, 2014
Borosilicate glass
Female System, 2014
Borosilicate glass
CNAP collection, France
Female System close-ups
Male System, 2014
Borosilicate glass
CNAP collection, France
Male System close-ups
In Vitro Industry, 2014
Borosilicate glass
Private collection
In Vitro Industry close-ups
Renversant! Quand art et design s’emparent du verre _ Cite du Vin, Bordeaux, 2019 Renversant! is the creation of the Foundation for Wine Culture and Civilisations and the guest curator, Bettina Tschumi. Glass artworks, drawings, projects, performances but also video works to explore, over the course of the exhibition, the creative process of transformation.
House Life _ CNAP collection at MADD Bordeaux, 2017
This collection, one of the largest in Europe, contains some of the most significant works of contemporary designers, French and international alike. This project is an opportunity to offer pieces of furniture and other objects the context which was originally theirs: a domestic world. The exhibition will thus be held in two venues, in two extraordinary houses.
Male & Female Systems, 2014
Borosilicate glass
CNAP collection, France
photos: Colombe Rubini
What is Luxury? _ V&A Museum, London 2015
What is Luxury? framed work by designers, makers and artists using a selection of terms in order to engage with and expand upon current debate. It addressed the production of exceptional objects, which demonstrate an extraordinary investment in time and handmaking.
HOME (very) SWEET HOME _ Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris 2014
With the exhibition Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac has imagined an apartment in which works of art and objects of decorative art are used to stimulate the spectators' senses, their emotions, and their mood. The visitor reproduces the movements of the seducer in La Petite Maison (The Little House), a 1758 novella by Jean-François de Bastide in which a libertine wagers that he can seduce a woman simply by exposing her to the beauties of his little house.
Male & Female Systems, 2014
Borosilicate glass
CNAP collection, France
Other El Ultimo Grito's work at Home (very) Sweet Home
Free Range Table_Big Ferrari Red, 2013
Cardboard and Epoxy
Private Collection
CCTV Gotham, 2013
Suguru, steel, card, electric motor and LED
Private Collection