Book presenting Benjamin Loyauté’s work in progress on the magic of the ordinary, published in continuation with the exhibition Experiencing the ordinary at the Palais de la Porte Dorée in 2018.
Texts by Alicia Knock, curator at the Centre Pompidou and Gemma Daou, Doctor of Philosophy.
Benjamin Loyauté is a French artist and design critic. In 2015 he designed the Hypervital exhibition as general curator of the Saint Etienne Design Biennial.
A former researcher and curator, he has taken part in a number of international events: Design contre Design, Grand Palais, Paris; Biennale internationale du design, musée des arts modernes et contemporains, Saint-Étienne; National Museum of China, International Design Triennial, Beijing; Power Station of Art, Shanghai; MAD Paris and Brussels; Design Basel, Miami.
Benjamin Loyauté has also been a guest lecturer (Geneva University of Art and Design; Tsinghua University, Beijing, etc.) and has published numerous essays, including After Design (2010), Old is Back (2009), Reasemotion (2011), The Aesthetic Consciousness (2015), and others. In 2012 and 2013, he was a member of the Design Miami Basel jury for the Designers of the Future prize. He was also a jury member for the Design Intelligence Award.
