Twisted Objects is an ode to popular culture in which obsolete generic ephemera are warped and distorted, reflecting an obsessive perception of mundane objects. Shot without CJI effects, Twisted Objects was exhibited in several cities such as Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Vienna. A special shortened edit was released in 2014 in collaboration with Nowness.
Geodesic Dome is a sculptural work by Ill-Studio exhibited in
Paris in 2008. Ill-Studio imagined a fictional encounter between designer Rei Kawakubo and architect Richard Buckminster Fuller.
«Ill-Studio? I first considered them as “contemporary aesthetes”. This could look like an oxymoron, a contradiction : the aesthete, in its old and dandy-est sense, is all about disdain for democratic productions, industrial civilization artifacts and popular surfaces, and for this crowd he snubs with his aristocratic taste.
You can find this in Ill-Studio’s work since 2007: whatever they’re asked to work on, they showcase the evidence of a cult of beauty, managing to combine minimalism with that kind of preciousness that may lead to esotericism.
The style is their style, before displaying any technical know-how or graphico-conceptual protocol. Except that this true “hyperesthesia disease” (illness?) does not only apply to quality items, but to some indifferently high or low forms of contemporary culture. This is the artistic direction that will be showcased during their exhibition Fetishistic Scopophilia : highlighting visual obsessions, to exhibit references, to taste raw materials.»
Text by Jean-Max Colard
For the launch of their online video platform, i-D Magazine UK asked
Ill-Studio and model Lily McMenamy to collaborate on a film about secret passions. The resulting film is an imaginary yoga tutorial performed by Lily McMenamy and styled by former i-D fashion editor Erika Kurihara.
Artist Anri Sala and curator Christine Macel appointed Ill-Studio to create the identity of the French Pavillon during the 2013 edition of the Venice Biennalle. The resulting project was a minimalistic interpretation of Anri Sala’s take on Maurice Ravel ‘Concerto pour la main gauche’ adapted to various forms and mediums.