Guest Designer : Zoé Saudrais

Zoé Saudrais’ art studies began in Spain, where she spent two years at the Beaux-arts. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Plastic Arts in Paris and then headed south. In fact, she completed her training with a DNA and a DNSEP in design in Marseille.

These two fields, Art and Design, blend together in her practice, and that’s all she asks.

In recent years, her projects have merged with her claims. Beneath their naïve and joyful appearance, her work often conceals a message and demands that are far more serious than they appear.

Her projects are just as talkative as she is. They bubble over with enthusiasm and color, and encourage overflow.

Often, faced with her cynical assessment of society, she is asked what she proposes instead. She believes that the role of the designer is to invent better days.

The drawings that give rise to her projects are always imbued with her political concerns of the moment, and accompany social mobilizations.

Above all, her aim is to bring people together and create a space for collective emulation. Often around the table. Because when appetite goes, everything goes…