FEU !
The FEU! collective, which brings together six artists who share a common interest in ceramics, presents an original installation at the crossroads of design, art object and sculptural installation. The project explores how contemporary ceramics can interact with domestic space, private collections and the ritual of sharing. It is rooted in a collective desire to reinvent the uses of ceramics through a two-stage installation.
1—Le meuble platonicien / Le cabinet curieux
A unique piece of base furniture, designed as a “meuble platonicien”, capable of accommodating and revealing ceramic works of varying dimensions. A sculptural yet functional proposition, conceived as a solution for collectors – it accommodates and showcases medium-sized works, designed specifically for interior spaces.
The piece functions as a modular, sculptural podium, inspired by Plato’s allegory of the cave. It evokes the altar, the cave and the cabinet of curiosities.
Intended for collectors, this furniture offers a special solution for displaying several ceramic works: a contemplative, evolving island between light and shadow – a revelatory device.
2 — Six services / A banquet — Social Sculpture
Six table services are created by the six members of the FEU! collective (6 x 26 pieces), each conceived as a deployable mound, somewhere between archaic banquet and narrative design.
These services dialogue through recurring forms in the members’ work: mounds, domes, modules, stacks. They invite us to reappropriate the uses, design and art of the table – between the everyday and the ritual.
The viewer becomes an actor, manipulating the forms, unfolding and activating them. These gestures summon the imagination and re-interrogate our relationship with the object. These services can be circulated, adapted and reactivated in a variety of contexts: private collections, exhibitions, culinary performances.
Two time of use
●1. Compacted, the services form mysterious, sculptural mound-domes.
●2. Unfolded, they reveal their function of use and the imaginary of the banquet. The oven becomes the measure of the world: Each service is designed from the average capacity of our ovens (around 80 L), affirming a common scale.
Service as social sculpture
Each set is conceived as an archetypal form, between exhibition and gesture of use. This project questions the way in which objects activate relationships, memories and narratives.
The installation can exist as:
●A limited, modular edition;
●A complete curatorial proposition: a landscape of domes, on the border between design and sculpture.
In summary
FEU! proposes an installation at the crossroads of sculpture, design and use, around common forms: the mound, the dome, the pedestal. The project is inspired by Plato’s cave, the cabinet of curiosities, the ancient banquet and shadow theater. We question our relationship with the object, its staging and its relational potential. Each dinner service becomes a social sculpture: a landscape of gestures and narratives, compacted, then deployed like a ritual. The meuble-socle, meanwhile, links the work to the domestic space: a modular architecture designed to collect, display and invite.
