ADAF 2022

A Domestic Art Fair 2022 took place at LaVallée (Brussels, Belgium) from 2 to 5 June 2022. The exhibition featured the works of 74 Belgian-based artists, who were asked to create a domestic object specifically for the occasion.

DOCS

>adaf 2022-activity report

>adaf 2022-opening-letter
>adaf 2022-LaVallée-MAP
>adaf 2022-program
>adaf 2022-radio interview with BX1

ARTISTS

ROOMS

PIECES

Bar
Bed sheets
Beds
Bedside lamps
Benches
Bookcase
Cabinet
Candlestick
Carpets
Chairs
Chandelier
Clocks
Clothes rack
Coat hanger
Coffee table
Consoles
Curtains
Cushions
Cutlery set
Floor lamp
Front door
Fruit basket
Hangers
Huge pillow
Keyring

Lamps
Mirrors
Nesting tables
Nightstands
Peeling knife
Pendant lamps
Tables
Screen
Shelves
Shower curtain
Sink
Soap dish
Sofa
Speakers
Stools
Table
Toilet brush
Toilet paper holder
Tray
Vases
Vide-poches
Wall lights
Wall mat
Wall shelf
Watering can

TEAM 2022

AD Communication	Alliage & Clément Horard
Graphic designer	Angelo Dorasoglu
Photo	Antoine Grenez
Texte	Coraline Guilbeau
Food	Dindins Club
Scenography	M. Doras Alver & Caterina Dubini & Antonin Kremer
Talk	Giulia Ricci and David Evrard
Beer	La Jungle
Place	LaVallée
Curation	Miguel Gonçalves-Alver & Morgan Dulong
Collaboration	Nicolas Zanoni
Vidéo	Esteph
Web	Théo Boissonade

ABOUT

ADAF — A DOMESTIC ART FAIR

ADAF is the brainchild of Miguel Gonçalves-Alver, Morgan Dulong and Doras Alver, two artists and an architect whose respective concerns and practices navigate between the fields of art and design. The artists selected for each edition are largely from a wide circle of shared acquaintances or interests. The practices are varied, and it is this heterogeneity of approaches that allows to support the sensitivity of a look at a particular object.

A general idea is tend to define design as the conception of objects characterized by their utility, their function. This precision is important because one of the requests formulated by ADAF to the invited artists is precisely that the designed object must be “functional”, and thus respond to the use that is presupposed and expected of it. A condition (a challenge?) that a majority of the artists are not in the habit of taking into account when it comes to creating their own works.

Each piece created by featuring artists for the fair remains unique. An object speaks, it charms, it is a system of signs. We choose an object for personal, emotional, cultural reasons. The emotional bond that is thus established between the user and the object gives it a form of value, a value of esteem. With annual events, ADAF would like to question these different values (commercial, symbolic, emotional) that we give to the objects exhibited and to the spaces that stage them. Will visitors come to see art works or design objects? An exhibition or a market? What happens to an art object when it is “used” in the first degree, in everyday, purely functional use? It is about opening up possibilities, playing on several perspectives, digging into different depths.

CONTACT

Curator

Miguel Gonçalves-Alver

info@adomesticartfair.com

Communication

Ash Lizzies

communication@adomesticartfair.com