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Tanguy is an artist-designer currently working on the concept of interdependency (as an analysis of relations and identities that shape the world).

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🗡️ Swords & Animals Jewelry
🦢 Aguas Libres en Quilicura
🔥 Animals' Uprising
☀️ Bye Bye Summer
🎢 Play Theory Park : Abigarramiento (2024)🌈
🌃 Ghost Town
🎟️🎬 The Last Rehearsal of the Butcher (2023)
🐺 The Butcher (2023)

The Butcher is about animals/Talking and talking/And now driven to the slaughterhouse/It is about a play/That is never played/Because the actors/Will always be rehearsing/The actors are five animals/Five animals are interpreted by humans/So it is/The Butcher is about a mise en abyme/A play in a play in a play/It is about politics/And this weird fucking world/The Butcher is about reality/And the time we are going through/It is all about fiction/And hopefully it is a nice story.

🛒 How I prepared The Sunday Lunch (2021)
🐅 manifest
🧭 Le Site de l'Arpenteur • The Surveyor's Website (2021)
🐟🎬 The Source Underneath The Bunker (2022)

The stream starts in a bunker and ends in the parliament. The stream is a cyborg: all its course has been modified by human will. It’s born in a concrete source, flowing from the cement scars to the pipes, crossing through gardens of embassies and epuration station, barely catching a breath in a public park before sinking back into the ground. Crushed by the grand canal it needs its own pump - steel prothesis grafted on its snake body - to return to the surface. It ends in the parliament. From bunker to parliament, from war scars to power wires.

Current projects

Résidence / Bourse Échos de l'Institut Français du Chili
With the Universidad Diego Portales and Nucleo FAIR
Humedales de Quilicura, Chile 17.09 - 15.11 2025

Exhibition

Humedales Enmarañados (Participation) International Architecture Exhibition of Venice, IT 10.05 - 23.11 2025
Galerie LA : ¥€$ Galerie LA, Aubervilliers, FR 03 2025
Ecological issue: Living Through Ecocide Les Jardiniers, Montrouge, FR 24.08 - 01.09 2024
DAE Graduation Show The Heuvel, Eindhoven, NL 21.10 - 29.10 2023
Compulsives Desires, On Lithium Extraction and Rebellious Mountains Galeria Municipal do Porto, PT 25.03 - 28.05 2023
Collages - Shed Show Bergstraat, Eindhoven, NL 02 2023

Residency

La Chambre des Méthodes, avec Tin Ayala Drop Design, Saint-Etienne, FR 01.04 - 13.04 2024
La Peyrigne Berrac, FR 18.03 - 25.03 2024

Events & Shows

Ghost Town : Collective Puppet Show with Manybats Eindhoven, NL 06.06 2025
The Last Rehearsal of The Butcher Lab-1, Eindhoven, NL 22.06 2023

Education

Master Social Design - Graduated cum Laude & Best Thesis Award Design Academy Eindhoven, NL 09 2021 - 07 2023
DNMADE Objet - Innovation Sociale Ecole Boulle, Paris, FR 09 2018 - 07 2021

FR / EN

Tanguy est un art­iste-designer tra­vail­lant sur le con­cept d'inter­dépen­dance

comme analyse des rela­tions et des identités qui composent le monde.

En utilisant sociologie et écologie politique, il propose à travers ses projets d'apprendre à formuler soi-même sa situation, ses ambitions politiques au sein de la société, aussi bien que créer des espace d’échanges et de relation.

Les figures animales, abordées à travers l’anthropomorphisme et le zoomorphisme, occupent une place importante. Elle permettent la remise en question des frontières rigides entre les êtres vivants, de la cristallisation et l'essentialisation des identités qui tendent à nier les liens et les dépendances entre les êtres. Êtres aux limites floues, enchevêtréxs dans et avec les autres vivants.

Dans son projet de master intitulé The Butcher (2023), Tanguy a exploré ces thèmes à travers une fiction créée collectivement, utilisant les outils de représentations comme le théâtre et brouillant la frontière entre réalité et fiction, afin d'explorer la capacité de cette dernière à réengager notre compréhension du la société et ouvrir un espace de débat.

De septembre à novembre 2025, il était en résidence à Santiago du Chili. A travers une exploration artistique et sensible de Quilicura, terres humides menacées par les projets industriels, il a travaillé sur le concept d'interdépendance comme manière de relationner avec humains et les non-humains. Ces relations sont fondamentalement politiques, construites socialement et impliquant des rapports d’égalité, de domination, de coopération ou de conflit.

Ses histoires sont celles de résistances, réelles ou imaginaires. Par exemple Aujourd’hui is a wild animal, réalisée pour l’exposition Compulsives Desires (Galerie Municipale de Porto) présente des scènes à Covas de Barroso (Portugal), dans la forêt de Hambach (Allemagne) et à Lota (Chili). Contre l'assujettissement de la montagne par l'industrie minière, ces scènes dépeignent la montagne, ses forces et ses bêtes, luttant contre l'extractivisme destructeur, par la colère, la célébration et le désir.

Tanguy is an artist-designer working on the concept of interdependency

as an analysis of relations and identities, that form and shape the world.

He's using sociology and political ecology through his projects, in order to learn and teach how to formulate oneself position and political ambition, within the group and within society, as well as to create a space of share and relationship.

Animal figures, rendered through anthropomorphism and zoomorphism, take center stage. They allow a profound challenging of the rigid boundaries between living beings, of the crystallization and essentialization of identities which tend to deny bounds and dependency existing between beings. Beings of blurry lines, intertwined in and within other livings.

Tanguy worked on these themes in his Master's project « The Butcher » (2023), building a collective fiction with the participant and the public. They used narratives tools such as theatre, and blurred the lines between real and fiction. Therefore, they explored the capacity of fiction to engage an understanding of the society, and to open a space for debate.

From September to November 2025, He did residency in Santiago de Chile. Through an artistic and sensitive exploration of Quilicura, wetlands threatened by industrial projects, he worked on the concept of interdependency as an understanding of the relationships with humans and non-humans. These relationships are fundamentally political, socially constructed, and involve dynamics of equality, domination, cooperation, or conflict.

Tanguy's stories are those of resistances, real or imagined. So is Aujourd'hui is a wild animal, specifically commissioned for the exhibition « Compulsives Desires » (Porto Municipal Gallery). The painting showcases scenes from Covas de Barroso (Portugal), Hambach Forest (Germany) and Lota (Chile). In contrast to the mining industry's logic of subjugating the mountain and its inhabitants, these stories depict the mountain, its forces, and beasts fighting extractivism and countering its defuturing effects through indignation, revenge, celebration, and desire.