Through a selection of unpublished commented images and archives, the book dedicated to designers dach&zephir highlights the questions that drive them, about forgotten, downplayed or erased histories. The introductory text written by author-Storyteller Olivier Marboeuf sheds new light on the duo's approach. It also highlights the unique experimentation carried out between dach&zephir and Neyret, revealed in the exhibition.
“Some of dach&zephir’s creations force us to reconsider the discipline of design according
to particular perspectives, lying in Caribbean Creole societies. Let us focus first on the
conditions of their emergence — partially hindered and often under control. This negative
approach of the object — of what constrains it — is also a way of composing the archive
with low-intensity gestures of resistance, and the deployment of partly concealed uses.
Some objects thus become potential observation devices of the modes and techniques for
overcoming the multiple life-limiting hindrances of colonial settling.”
— Olivier Marboeuf, author-storyteller, exhibition curator and film producer
Technical informations
Distribution: POLLEN
Publisher: Cité du design - Esadse
Published: September 2024
Languages: French/English
Dimensions: 170 × 225 mm
Pages : 60
Price: 10€
ISBN: 9782492621215
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About Olivier Marboeuf
Guadeloupean artist, author, storyteller, film producer and exhibition curator. In 1992, after studying science, he created a research comics publishing house called AMOK alongside Yvan Alagbé. In 2004, he founded Espace Khiasma, an independent art centre in Lilas (93), which he ran until 2018. Olivier Marboeuf has published numerous texts, articles and works at the crossroads of theoretical essays and poetry. His graphic design and sound installations have recently been presented at the Berlin Biennale (2022) and at the Venice Biennale (2024).
