Portuguese artist Didier Faustino presents ‘The Best of all Worlds’ an installation designed for Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine in the framework of IFA.’ In search of this ideal space where exchanges and confrontations take shape, The Best of all Worlds positions bodies and their phantoms to give them a voice. In the midst of the museum’s collections, the saga seems to gather spectators. Whilst projections of other architectures seem compromised, The Best of all Worlds is perfectly situated in the exhibition. A gathering of bodies where individuals discuss ‘body pleasure’ and ‘corps delicto.’ It is conceived as the distorted reflection of a meeting, a gathering place, a place to exchange ideas, for dialogue and discussion where power is exercised. This ‘micro- nation’ with blurred contours, questions our use of debating. The strange and fragile proportions of this unison on the brink of collapse, invites the spectator to project themselves failing taking part.



An installation in the windows of Paris Lafayette Maison from 16 > 20 June 2011, the artist created a mask that clamps over the faces of a kissing couple. Called Doppelgänger, the 3D-printed mask holds the wearers’ heads apart at a fixed angle while hole at the centre allow their mouths to meet.



In 2009, in Hong Kong, Faustino installed a pair of swing seats on a billboard frame. The concept is called “Lightness of being”



In 2008, Yang Yang, South Korea, Faustino created “Sky is the limit” a domestic space sample, propulsed 20 meters above the ground, a tea room projected in a state of weightlessness, over the troubled horizon. The building’s body is nothing more than a fragile skeleton. Its thin arachnoid structure sets under tension a vertical void. Two captive voids of strictly similar dimensions provide two opposing experiences.

designer: didier faustino
date: 21 october >4 december 2011
venue: galerie carlu | for the institut français d’architecture exhibitions | 1 place du trocadéro paris 75116