Christophe Guérin is a young French designer of ideas. He is a fresh brain, driven on the conceptual aspects of design features accompanied by real material research. Guérin’s current preocupation is the creation of a Structural Alphabet, dealing with, upon the philosopher Saussure, writing, speach, thoughts and gesture.

Gestural Structure will be divided in two parts over one month:

Starting with two weeks of residency at l’Atelier, Christophe Guérin will make his research around the concept of gesture in the space and the perception of this movement, providing a body of work that will be exhibited the two following weeks.

A Dance Performance will mark the idea of gesture during the vernissage as an opening ceremony. The choreography of the young and talented Louis-Clément da Costa -based in Brussels, currently working with swiss choregraph Gilles Jobin among several other international projects, will show the construction of a (con)text where errors have their place. Seen as an occurrence of chance or a conscient change, wouldn’t those variations offer a scene to other possibilities?

The different materials used in this exhibition will evoke transformations through temporality. The two concepts of signifié (concept) and signifier (material) will be questioned: can one element change the whole and - on another level, can the whole determine a gesture?

Gestural Structure will be the scene for a variety of experiments and will also propose regular vintage items inscribing themselves in this world of alterations.

Laura Gianetti © 2003-13