The Shape of Use

Marte Mei van Haaster’s puzzle-like plates invite you to touch, to rearrange, to complete something. Serban Ionescu’s letter chair makes language sit down — every angle it faces sends a different message. Alix Lacloche’s outsized cutlery asks what a single bite might taste like if the tool holding it refused to be normal. Orfeo Tagiuri’s window screen doesn’t block the outside world so much as open a conversation with it. Kiri-Una Brito Meumann’s sculptural drawings ask why a drawing should stay flat. Ilies Issiakhem’s silkscreens carry the hand and the machine in the same image. And at the centre, Julien De Smedt’s revolving bookmills refuse the tyranny of the static shelf, letting books find their readers instead. A curated reading list by Lou Stoppard traces the ideas beneath the works. A series of workshops and events will take place during Paris Design Week.

Vie Projects and New Vision Art School come together around a shared conviction that art education matters. This exhibition, a first in their partnership, presents drawings by the school's students in Port-au- Prince, Haiti, alongside the work of seven artists and designers.