The Vous avez dit bizarre ? (Did you say bizarre?) exhibition explores the notion of the contemporary grotesque through a selection of about forty designers.
Co-directed and co-designed by Dutch artist Bart Hess and art historian Alexandra Jaffré, the exhibition brings together design projects that play with the codes of the grotesque style to demonstrate the social implications of behaviors that can sometimes be over-the-top.
The grotesque is commonly regarded as a ridiculous, exaggerated character. And yet, its semantic field, generous, fluid and changing, allows the expression of anything from the ridiculous to the absurd with humour, mockery or uneasiness.
12 Mar – 12 Apr 2015