Ecce Home - Nuit Blanche, Paris, 5th October 2019
Urban life in urban furniture
Dominated by fashion design and ruled by lifestyles gurus, we, the army of young professionals, live in small flats, have a sense of style, follow diets, unfollow religion, trust in smartphones and we furnish accordingly.
Ecce Home (from Ecce homo: "behold the man") is a dwelling for the today’s humanitas, for those who want live the outdoors and those who cannot do otherwise.
"I have transformed a public gym - a typical example of contemporary urban furniture - into a studio for young professionals. Public urban furnitures into public urban art.
We are all virtually homeless. High rents in big cities, condemn us in dwellings of 30sqm. In Paris, it is legal to rent homes as tiny as 8sqm. We depends on unstable and underpaid jobs: that is what separates us from the street. I intervened between the 18th and 19th districts, the poorest areas of Paris and France, where squares and parks are manned, h24, by homeless and sans-papiers.
There are those who experience the urban space as a commodity anf those who live it because have no other choice. I want the road vs I want a house. This precise duality gave me a hint for project, hacking this outdoor space with indoor Ikea furnitures. Think and rethink the opposite, switch position to the value of A and B, revolt, subvert the common oder - This is a frequent key in my work".
Dominated by fashion design and ruled by lifestyles gurus, we, the army of young professionals, live in small flats, have a sense of style, follow diets, unfollow religion, trust in smartphones and we furnish accordingly.
Ecce Home (from Ecce homo: "behold the man") is a dwelling for the today’s humanitas, for those who want live the outdoors and those who cannot do otherwise.
"I have transformed a public gym - a typical example of contemporary urban furniture - into a studio for young professionals. Public urban furnitures into public urban art.
We are all virtually homeless. High rents in big cities, condemn us in dwellings of 30sqm. In Paris, it is legal to rent homes as tiny as 8sqm. We depends on unstable and underpaid jobs: that is what separates us from the street. I intervened between the 18th and 19th districts, the poorest areas of Paris and France, where squares and parks are manned, h24, by homeless and sans-papiers.
There are those who experience the urban space as a commodity anf those who live it because have no other choice. I want the road vs I want a house. This precise duality gave me a hint for project, hacking this outdoor space with indoor Ikea furnitures. Think and rethink the opposite, switch position to the value of A and B, revolt, subvert the common oder - This is a frequent key in my work".
