Pauline Rip
- La Tannerie Fantastique
- Riding Ghosts
- Elficology : the harvest of morning dew
- Meet Meat
- Lowfoot
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Pauline Rip
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DESIGN SCENOGRAPHY
Exhibitions
• TAC (Temporary Art Center), What a time to be alive, DDW19 (Dutch Design Week 2019), Eindhoven.
• Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, 2019.
Press
• DAMN magazine n°75 (pp.104-105), On information overload, Emma Singleton, Avril 2020.
• Metcha, the oracle of leather design culture, Domesticating the unknown, digital magazine, Novembre 2019.
• NY Center for Book Arts, Interspecies Futures archive, Oscar Salguero, New-York, US, 2022.
• IN/SEARCH RE/ SEARCH, Gabrielle Kennedy (ed.), «Riding Ghosts», Imagining scenarios through art and design (pp.214-217), Amsterdam, 2020.
Seeing isn’t believing but believing is seeing… even if you have been looking through your mind’s eye. We can all think up the image of the Loch Ness monster (Nessie) with its whale like body and small head, or picture a Yeti roaming Himalayan mountains with a body covered in reddish-brown hair. As humans we have a natural ability to reason the unreasonable and make sense of the obscure, Nessie and Yeti have never been found but they still live in Scotland and the Himalayas. Emma Singleton DAMN magazine
From a in-depth research and developed admiration for the illogical beauty of these animals, Riding Ghosts poetically works to harness their control. Through the data gathered by the cryptozoologists and help from a statistician, two bespoke saddles are presented. These technical objects highlight our ability to theorise the invisible, and therefore domesticate it.
By materialising 'irrational' data into an object of domestication, the chimeras come to life: the saddles are beautiful, credible, technical, the curves align with the measurements established by the researchers. Suddenly, the existence of these ghostly creatures is no longer to be proven, because true or false, they have given shape to a physical reality where we have succeeded in dominating the unseen.
Riding Ghosts can be seen as a design reaction to the anguish of a modern world in need of great discoveries and thrills ; it plays with levels of plausibility and allows the audience to confront their own beliefs and create discussion, and even polemics : does something have to true to be valuable ?
Riding Ghosts - Designing with the unreasonable
The publication Riding Ghosts brings together some of the sprawling research carried out by cryptozoologists — tireless seekers of hidden creatures such as the Yeti and the Loch Ness Monster — who often dedicate their lives to this pursuit. Gathering information from disparate media has been a long process.
Riding Ghosts seeks to shed light on data and knowledge often ridiculed, since this research is based on facts that cannot be conclusively proven — yet this does not make them any less valuable.
Graphic design
Benedetta Pompili