Elena Dellapiana in dialogue with Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò
Every object carries a share of pure enigmaticity, a fraction of the indistinguishable and imponderable that accompanies its life cycle. The enigma is inherent in the very existence of the object: all tangible presences are affected by a pervasive and persistent - but often imperceptible - fraction of mystery.
Ferréol Babin declines this enigmatic character of the object through a practice that has no precise thematic boundaries, but expands in a pervasive way through successive contaminations on a wide front of expression, in constant dialogue with applied arts, visual arts and crafts. His creative explorations are both consciously functional and emotionally poetic, often lend themselves to an ambivalent interpretation that puts them into an original typological category, between the archaic artefact and the contemporary product.
The latest monographic volume written by Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò, published by Quodlibet, is dedicated to Ferréol Babin. The authors dialogue with Elena Dellapiana, Full Professor of History of Architecture and Design at the Polytechnic University of Turin. Barbara Brondi and Marco Rainò are architects, designers and independent curators. In 2002 they found BRH+, a studio active in wide-ranging design derived from the concept of architecture open to the convergence of disciplines. They are initiators and curators of IN Residence.