What if art and design weren’t static, but constantly changing?
In this issue of Unfold, we look at objects shaped by movement, flexibility, and possibility instead of permanence. Through the work of pioneering artists and designers, we showcase creations that shift, slot, and adapt to their function, setting, and to us.
This is art and design as a living language, where every form can change and every use can be reimagined. These transformative, modular pieces answer the need for spaces and lives that are fluid, adaptable, and open to reinvention.
Andrée & Michel Hirlet — The Art of Playfulness
Alternating between sculpture and functional design, the visionary ceramicist couple has explored, since the late 1960s, the interplay of colour and form through combinatory geometric volumes. Their work embodies an ethos of adaptability and playfulness, offering pieces that meet practical needs without ever losing their sculptural integrity.
With the gallery’s support, their long-held wish to produce limited editions has come to life in a series of tables, benches, murals, and screen dividers. Each piece is made from a single ceramic element, available in various colours and quantities to create custom, made-to-measure compositions.
REM Atelier — Sculpting Space through Motion
For the Dutch duo behind REM Atelier, furniture is not a fixed object, but rather a dynamic system that shapes and is shaped by its environment. Their ceramic shelves epitomise this vision: a sculptural installation of modular blocks that can be stacked, slid, and pivoted to create endless spacial configurations.
By rejecting a static compositions, REM Atelier’s work challenges the concept of permanence. Instead, they champion experimentation, autonomy and a new relationship with everyday objects—one that is rooted in motion and possibility.
Agnès Debizet — Between Function and Fantasy
With a dual background in literature and fine Arts, Agnès Debizet has shaped her practice, allowing her to weave narratives while transforming traditional ceramic crafts into thought-provoking pieces. Each piece brings a distinctive formal language, drawing on myth and folklore to reveal a relentless world of metamorphosis.
Bridging function and fantasy, each work offers more than mere objects—it reveals an intimate dialogue between form, aesthetics, and utility, inviting tactile and visual experience.
Natasha Dakhli — A New Living Archetype
Blending sculpture and practical objects, Natasha Dakhli’s totemic pieces are sensitive yet powerful. They evoke the aesthetics of mid-century design while drawing deeply from her Mediterranean heritage, gestures, and the earth. Inspired by Berber architectural principles, she invites us to inhabit space in a new way, as living entities.
Through her exploration of ceramic craft techniques, she raises everyday objects to new archetypes of furniture design.
