MATHILDE PELLE  INVITES ARNE HENDRIKS AND ERNESTO OROZA

As part of Paris Design Week and in conjunction with the “Chemin Creux” (Hollow Way) exhibition, the Martell Foundation presents a conversation between designer Mathilde Pellé and designers Arne Hendriks and Ernesto Oroza around the central question underlying her approach: “why is there something rather than less?”

Approached as a direction to be probed, the concept of “less” allows us to reconsider our material environments and authorises a critique of the dominant models that are curiously  both producers of exhaustion and saturation.

In contrast to the prevailing trend in Western societies to always seek to generate “more”, this exchange invites us to take examine the approaches of designers at the forefront of design thinking: whether it be outlining hypotheses of reduction in the size of the human species (Hendriks), considering technical reappropriations and forms of technological disobedience in a frugal economy (Oroza), or even considering the resource at the heart of ruin (Pellé).

These approaches, bridging anthropology and design, open up new ways of considering our practices and our relationship to material needs, and imagine paths for the reformulation of a common equilibrium.

Mathilde Pelle, Designer and independent researcher
Arne Hendriks, Artist, art researcher & art historian
Ernesto Oroza, Artist, designer, researcher & professor – École Supérieure d’Art et Design de Saint-Étienne

Monday, September 9, 2024 from 2.30pm to 3.30pm
Espace Commines, 17 rue Commines à Paris 75003