until Sunday April 19 2015

Grand-Hornu Images
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7301 Hornu
Belgium

The Futur archaïque exhibition presents the connection that currently exists between the immediate, short-term or even distant future and the past, the archaic – in the sense of returning to fundamental principles. It is illustrated from the perspective of design.

The exhibition highlights how young as well as not-so-young designers create objects that reveal our roots, which have been given a rough ride by modernity. For all its progress, reason and rationalisation, over time this same modernity has abandoned by the wayside the intrinsic value of objects