Café Delphine entrusted to French artist Delphine Dénéréaz!

         —     Special projects in situ

Delphine Dénéréaz, a contemporary French artist born in 1989 and a graduate of La Cambre in Brussels, class of 2013, has been invited to reimagine the layout of the café space without conventional partitions for the 10th edition of the Luxembourg Art Week.

Delphine Dénéréaz draws from her recent exhibition Bienvenue à Delfunland, presented at the Collection Lambert in 2023. The architectural structures of this imaginary city will intertwine with the flowered and deconstructed chapel of Un lieu à soi, reinventing a “village square” at the very heart of the fair. From the fountain to the hotel, each element seems to resonate, inviting visitors to gather and interact.To breathe life into these elements, Delphine Dénéréaz resurrects forgotten textiles that were destined for abandonment, reflecting her concern for environmental issues. She revisits the artisanal technique of the “lirette rug” (“tapis de lirette”), modernizing it with a contemporary sensibility to explore concepts of identity and belonging.

         —     Delphine Dénéréaz

Through her work, Delphine Dénérez weaves immersive, dreamlike environments in vibrant hues, where art history and ancestral cultures merge with contemporary signs and artifacts. Her universe overflows with a plethora of ornamental patterns, blending personal references with collective symbols drawn from urban landscapes and digital culture. Delphine Dénéréaz delves into the storytelling aspect of weaving, using this craft to stitch together personal and collective narratives. She also shares her expertise through group workshops. Her works, embellished with symbols, emojis and brand logos – with which she regularly collaborates – examine the overflow of images in our visual culture, reflecting the paradoxes in our current ways of representing and modes of communication.

      As part of the solo exhibition by French architect Jean-Christophe Quinton entitled “The otherness of the rooms and the promise of the forms”, we invite you to a conference!

         —     Conference

‘How can architecture’s own resources be used to alleviate the complexity of situations? How can form, plan, rooms and materials be deduced in a specific and original way for each project?
This questioning gives rise to an architectural strangeness that is both situated and autonomous. Architecture then becomes an immediate experience that helps us to be better in the world, to be better to others and to be better to ourselves.
– Jean-Christophe Quinton, architect

This conference is part of the exhibition Jean-Christohe Quinton, organised by the luca – Luxembourg centre for architecture, with the support of Institut français du Luxembourg and the Association Victor Hugo.

         —     Jean-Christophe Quinton

Jean-Christophe Quinton, born in 1972, graduated from Ecole Paris-Belleville in 2000. He set up his own practice in 2003. In 2004, he won the Nouveaux Albums des Jeunes Architectes prize, and was mentioned in the Chernikov Prize in 2010. He also teaches at various schools of architecture, and since 2015 has been head of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles. The monograph of his work Vers l’immédiate étrangeté des formes was awarded the Grand prix du livre d’architecture de la Ville de Briey in 2017. He has been a full member of the Académie d’Architecture since 2019.