Région Sud Design Prize : Cassandre Thévenier

Cassandre Thévenier, born in Ambilly in 1996, has lived and worked in Marseille since 2019, where she obtained a DNSEP in design in 2025.

 

Her work originates in intimate narratives, attachments, and spontaneous uses. It weaves itself around our sentimental objects to question what they hold within.

Her practice explores what ordinarily remains discreet: silent gestures, invisible presences, and interior narratives. She questions the boundary between our bodies, our souls, and our objects, how they preserve traces of ourselves and sometimes perpetuate our existences.

It is through experiences of grief that she interrogates these transformations: those moments when certain objects suddenly change status, becoming vessels of memory, spaces of dialogue, or forms of presence. Her work is interested in what objects allow us to reinvent, narrate, or embody in the face of absence.

Cassandre considers possibilities, moments of doubt, and tipping points. Those situations where a gesture, a light, a sound, or an object seems to open a breach in reality and leads us to question the place of the absent in our lives.

 

In her work, light, gestures, contexts, and narratives become raw materials on the same level as textiles, ceramics, wood, and glass. Her design practice explores the sensitive, intimate, and invisible uses of our objects: the uses that transform, in our eyes, ordinary objects into sacred ones.

 

Through her pieces, Cassandre Thévenier questions the bonds we weave with objects and how they allow us to confront absence, to reorganise it, and create alongside it. Her work reveals a need for continuity, dialogue, and care through the object.

 

Each of her works thus attempts to open a passage: between visible and invisible, intimate and shareable, presence and absence.

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