Experiencing the Ordinary

Nuit Blanche

Paris, France

2018

Benjamin Loyauté

Invited by Rubis Mécénat cultural fund, Benjamin Loyauté presents, for his first solo exhibition in France, the latest chapter of his work-in-progress at the Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris, inaugurated for Nuit Blanche.
With this exhibition, the artist pursues his meditation on the magic of the ordinary and the importance of the intangible heritage in our societies, through a work that intertwines film, installation, sculpture and performance. The work that triggered this focus on the ordinary, Candygraphy, is an edible sweet/sculpture whose shape calls to mind a strange, ancient sculpture.
The exhibition encourages visitors to think about the paradox and the radicality revealed by our relationship to the simple things that surround us yet escape our notice ; thus challenging our perception of the ordinary.

Benjamin Loyauté

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.