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Creative direction, visual identity and curation with Pierre Castignola↗︎ for the exhibition Take one just in case at Tesson Project Space↗︎ during Paris Design Week↗︎. The exhibition brings together works by 27 French and international artists and designers. Staged as a long shelved alley, the artworks take the bazaar as both their subject and method. The visual identity and scenography draw directly from the spatial language of contemporary bazaar shops.
Take one just in case, Paris Design Week↗︎ Tesson Project Space↗︎ (Paris, 2026) | img03 to img06 by Pierre Castignola↗︎
exhibition text for Take one just in case, Tesson Project Space↗︎ (2026)
"Borrowed from the Persian bāzār, the word has a long history of colonial and orientalist reinterpretation. Here, it is used deliberately to refer not to an imagined elsewhere, but to the ordinary ecology of contemporary low-cost retail. A bazaar is a shop built on eclecticism: a place where inexpensive, anonymous objects are gathered without hierarchy, and where one can find almost everything while looking for nothing. Essential and disposable, sturdy and fragile, functional and defective, bootleg and nameless objects coexist within the same informal commercial landscape.
Largely absent from contemporary design exhibitions, these everyday objects occupy a fertile blind spot. They usually circulate without identifiable authorship, evolving through minor variations in shape, colour, and graphics. Their ubiquity and anonymity make them a fertile ground for reinterpretation. Each participant reinterprets an archetypal bazaar object: hair clips, school supplies, fans, toilet paper holders, power strips, and other ordinary goods commonly found in a bazaar. Together, the works form another kind of bazaar: a polyphonic collection that uses familiar objects to examine the aesthetics, production, and cultural logic of the ordinary."
Take one just in case, Paris Design Week↗︎ Tesson Project Space↗︎ (Paris, 2026) | img07 to img09 by Pierre Castignola↗︎
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