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Didier Faustino - [ Traduire cette page en français ]
Working between Lisbon and Paris, Didier Faustino pursues a multifaceted career as architect, artist and magazine editor, combining performances, video, exhibition and writing with his architectural experiments. His architecture reflects an experience of the body : of its physical and political constraints and its topomorphic exploration. At the Venice biennale in 2000 he showed Body in Transit, a suitcase designed for air transport of an illegal immigrant, with its interior moulded to accommodate the nomadism forced on groups condemmed to exile, but also pointed out the way our habitat is coming adrift. He takes a multiform approach to architecture, ranging from experimentation to installation : his «aquatic» floor, shown in 2002 at the city of Paris Musée d’Art Moderne, let visitors to perceive their own environment as an extension of an endlessly renewed spatial experience. Faustino’s approach focuses on the perceptual notion of « visual and physical instability», which makes architecture an active interface between our body and its integration into space-time. He explores the «transitional zone» between physical and political space, between perceptual and architectural space. In his Alice’s House project he spread a skin-supple membrane between two detached houses, thus posing the question of ownership and of the «evolution» of an architecture always regarded as a transition from one state to another. Didier Faustino is now executing a public space in Portugal and building a number of detached houses.
