DS Galerie is delighted to welcome the “Machann Pannié” research and creation project led by the design duo dach&zephir, based on the art of basketry written between the French Caribbean Archipelago (Guadeloupe - Martinique) and mainland France as part of Paris Design Week 2023. It is the third part of a multi-faceted and protean research project on the history of the French Caribbean Archipelago entitled ‘Eloj Kréyol’ (2015), which aims to reconcile and reactivate craft and cultural lifelines that have been neglected, forgotten and/or downplayed in the genealogy of the French Caribbean Archipelago. While the first sections looked at the emergence of design thinking in the French Caribbean Archipelago, through the creation of testimonial objects highlighting creative tactics and practices that are the manifestation of a ‘cunning intelligence’ (André Lucrèce, 2019), this new chapter looks at the possibility of creative thinking and shared narratives between the French Caribbean Archipelago and mainland France, through a single figure: the artisan - basket-maker.

This project is a 2021 winner of the Fonds Régional pour les talents émergents (FoRTE), financed by the Île-de-France Region and the Enowe-Artagon production fund.