KORBAN FLAUBERT

WHAT IS IT?
THE FORM IS MUTABLE, HINGED, FLEXIBLE, RECONFIGURABLE, NOT ABSOLUTE. PEOPLE CAN ENCOUNTER IT AND CHANGE ITS FORM AT WILL. SO ITS FORM DOESN’T BEGIN AND END WITH THE ARTIST (+ EGO). MORE NEUTRAL THAN SCULPTURE. DRY. A NEW TYPE OF OBJECT?

BLURRING THE DEFINITIONS OF DESIGNED OBJECTS. PEOPLE BEHAVE DIFFERENTLY WITH A CHAIR THAN WITH AN OBJECT WHOSE PURPOSE IS AMBIGUOUS VAGUE / UNFAMILIAR / COULD BE SCULPTURE. WE WANT PEOPLE TO BE AWARE OF THIS PROCESS.

THE FORM IS ALSO A MULTIPLIED SINGLE UNIT : SOURCES CHAIN STRUCTURES / GROWTH SYSTEMS FROM NATURE IN ITS SYSTEMATIC ADDITIVE FLEXIBLE FORM. A STRUCTURE DEVELOPED FROM A SINGLE SIMPLE UNIT + A SINGLE SIMPLE RULE GENERATES SURPRISINGLY EXPRESSIVE FORMS / CONFIGURATIONS. A CONFRONTATIONAL COMPRESSED ARMOURED STANDING BEAST UNFOLDS AND STRETCHES OUT ALONG THE GROUND TO FORM AN EXTENDED EXTROVERT.

LINEAR LINISHED STAINLESS STEEL SHEET IS A FAMILIAR ARCHITECTURAL GRADE MATERIAL, COMMONLY USED FOR RECTILINEAR FORMS, BENCHTOPS, KITCHENS. WE WANTED TO USE A BANAL INORGANIC MATERIAL, TO APPLY THE USUAL ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIAL FOLDING AND WELDING TECHNOLOGY TO A DIFFERENT END : A COMPLEX ORGANIC FORM. THE IDEA OF GROWTH APPLIED TO A SEVERE INDUSTRIAL MATERIAL. THE FAMILIAR WITH UNFAMILIAR RESULTS. EXTREME LIGHT AND SHADOW EFFECTS. SEVERE HARD SURFACES IN COLLISION.

WE AIMED TO MAKE A COMPELLING BUT MUTABLE FORM WITH NO APPARENT FUNCTION, THAT IS NOT BY DEFAULT SOME KIND OF ‘ART’, THAT BLURS DEFINITIONS OF DESIGNED