Continuing his research into the Arts and Crafts movement, Eliott Paquet has taken a broader interest in the consequences of industrialization and modernity on use value, the fetishization of the commodity, the manufactured object and the social structures of work. In this project, he wishes to question our relationship with making and heritage, through the historical, technical and social issues at stake in a monument such as Notre-Dame-de-Paris cathedral, just a few weeks away from its reopening to the public.

Ceci Tuera Cela (This will kill That) confronts the neo-Gothic and Romantic aesthetics of Victor Hugo's novel - a fantasized Paris where monsters, chimeras, manants and knights roam - with the trappings of late modernity. The works in the corpus embody the formal tension between standardized functionalism inherited from contemporary design on the one hand, and artisanal ideals inherited from the Neo-Gothic, Arts and Craft and Art Nouveau movements on the other.

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