"My work is driven by the exploration of embodied 'otherness' and the fluid boundaries between normality and normativity."
This is how designer and artist @diegograndry describes his work.
"Through visual poetry, I tell narratives that challenge perceptions of identity, difference, and belonging. A recurring theme in my practice is the re-imagination
of the body through technology—deconstructing and reconstructing its form, meaning, and presence in digital space.
This process often involves transporting and manipulating physical objects from popular culture into virtual realities, transforming them into new symbols with re-appropriated meanings."
Read the whole story on our website, or order your copy of DAMN90 to read it in print #DAMNSummerReads
IMAGES CREDITS:
SHAPE OF U by Éamonn Freel
3D sculpting, texturing, shading and
rendering for Underneath the fashion:
an exploration into fashion and body
shapes by Éamonn Freel & Vanessa
Reid for Reedition Magazine.
Creative and Photography: Éamonn Freel
Styling: Vanessa Reid and @driverepresents
Makeup: @lynskiii
Hair Stylist: @claire__grech@streetersagency
Set Design: @furmaan.ahmed@future_rep
Set Build: @666midwife
Casting Directors: @andrea_prato &
@danielvdg
Model: Rex Rayner at
@supamodelmanagement
Lighting Assistant:
@bradleypolkinghorne
Digital Technician: @kerimcangoren
Fashion Assistants: @andreea__georg &
@sssssssammmm
Makeup Assistant:
@francescaleachmakeup
Hair Stylist Assistants:
@kirstenbassett_ & Valentina Ingross
Retouch: @inkretouch
CGI: @zeel_freel@diegograndry@samrynearson
Production: @lockstudios
KHTOBTOGONE - SARA SADIK
Image Direction and Production: Diego Grandry
Voice: Idir Azougli
Editing: Edouard Mailaender
Original Music: DJ13NRV
Sound: Drastiques Mesures
TECHNO FEODAL
Techno Feodal critiques the shift from capitalism to digital feudalism, where power lies in controlling data.
BEAUF ET BARBARE
Beauf et Barbare reinterprets the socialist fraternal kiss, referencing the Brezhnev-Honecker embrace.
🌾💥extracts from ‘Feathers in the Fog’, 2024
The movie runs on a analogy between human and non human migrations through the example of a parakeet bird. It looks at the notion of Endemicity, often serving discourse of ‘us’ vs ‘them’.
The movie was made (mis)using Red Dead Redemption 2.
Exhibit BTS N°3 : Focus on Kevin Bray
Before heading to @nuits_sonores , we wanted to share another part of Exhibit.
This project is our way of highlighting the artists behind the scenes.
First up: @bray_kevin , who imagined an exhibition within the show — in collaboration with @diegograndry . Together, they transformed the transitions between each tableau into spaces of their own — an invite to step outside the club.
See you there,
Cheers
🖤
🌾💥extracts from ‘Feathers in the Fog’, 2024
The movie runs on a analogy between human and non human migrations through the example of a parakeet bird. It looks at the notion of Endemicity, often serving discourse of ‘us’ vs ‘them’.
The movie was made (mis)using Red Dead Redemption 2.
🎭🏀 this week-end at @art_rotterdam went in the blink of an eye. I am happy and grateful to have had the chance to participate in Prospects show. ✨
I feel blessed from all the reactions, interest and conversations I had from and with the audience. I just love looking at y’all looking at the work 🫠
Thank you to all @mondriaanfonds team for helping me making a step in this exciting and scary path!
Thank you to @louisebjeldbak and @elvisgustavsson for beautiful curation and advice.
Thank you @evdlingen for an inspiring text and speech.
A very special, warm shout out and thanks to my dear friends that have supported me in various and countless ways throughout this process.
🙏🏼 @citizen.obj
🙏🏼 @samrynearson
🙏🏼 @paddle_boyy
🙏🏼 @bray_kevin
🙏🏼 @451_232
🙏🏼 @billalvdb
🙏🏼 @brm.elm
🙏🏼 @acentko
Hyper thanks to my family fo my family for their all time love and support 💕
Skibidi will live!
📸 @tommysmits.tommysmits
“Design is... more than one prompt,”
—Marius Jopen & Diego Grandry,
on finding common grounds to design for a Digital Future.
For last year’s celebratory exhibition of Dutch Design Awards history, former winner Marius Jopen spotlighted Diego Grandry as an innovative storyteller making the most of new media.
Discover their perspectives on multidisciplinary work, digital innovation, and the importance of new, nuanced, visual languages to help us navigate emotionally loaded times.
. . .
🎬 Cutjongens
A portrait of KABK tutors: Diego Grandry and Kévin Bray
The classroom of the Bachelor's in Interactive Media Design @kabkimd is filled with all kinds of materials and computers. Some students are engaged in – at least seemingly – complex computer programmes, while others are drawing on paper. An outsider wouldn’t be able to guess which study programme this is, and perhaps that’s the essence of IMD.
The teaching duo of Diego Grandry (who completed IMD in 2019) and Kévin Bray sits at the back of the room. They’ve just finished teaching the Emerging Realities class – "That name suits us," says Diego – to first- and second-year students. While the IMD students immerse themselves in their work, Diego and Kévin share insights into their own practices and teaching.
After his studies, Diego worked with famous names such as Balenciaga, Goldband and Hermes. But he prefers to work on autonomous art. He is now busy with is work for @dutchdesignweek . Kévin studied Graphic Design in Roubaix, France and later also completed a master Design at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam. His work can now be seen in the @stedelijkmuseum Amsterdam.
3. Kévins' work for the Stedelijk Museum, a sculpture of his installation ‘ProtoVise: Shaping Ids, Swapping Worlds’.
4. Kévins' for the Stedelijk Museum: ‘ProtoVise: Shaping Ids, Swapping Worlds’.
5. Diego's work for Dutch Design Week: 'Freres et soeurs'.
6. Diego's work for Dutch Design Week: 'Beauf et Babare'.
Read the full interview with Diego Grandry and Kévin Bray via link in bio.
