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We buy, we break, we discard.
Faced with planned obsolescence and the silent depletion of our resources, technological innovation sometimes seems to be spinning its wheels. It is from this observation that the personal project "Recycling the Future" was born. In 2021, amidst the booming 3D printing trend, we wanted to ask a simple question: what if dead technology could print a living future?
Conceived as an exploration in design fiction, this series hybridizes upcycling and surrealist art to offer a totally unexpected second life to our dead household appliances. Drawing inspiration from the aesthetics of the Dada movement, we imagined utopian and visually striking machines. Here, the absurd and humor become levers to challenge the issue of overconsumption.Far from the ease of CGI, everything that makes up these still lifes is tangible.
Under this art direction defined by bold, contrasting colors, an out-of-service Nespresso machine is resurrected as a 3D haute-patisserie printer, while an old Singer sewing machine metamorphoses to weave a synthetic steak. Other everyday objects, such as lamps or extractors, mutate in turn to take on a completely new function.
Every piece in this series is the result of a fully handcrafted process. From scouring classified ads to the final retouching, including sketching, dismantling, adding industrial piping, and a meticulously calibrated studio shoot, we designed and built everything with our own hands. A homemade project from start to finish, proving that with a simple shift in perspective, the end of an object's life can become the beginning of a new story.
