Atelier YokYok

Eyes on Talents member, Atelier YokYok, is an artistic design studio founded in 2015 by Samson Lacoste and Luc Pinsard architects. It is today composed by four minds, including Laure Qarémy professor and Pauline Lazareff architect-engineer. The River Book is an installation designed for the city of Jiaxing in China. The challenge was to create an artwork that could last two years in the Changqiantang park, but also that stimulates people’s imagination and talks in an abstract way about the history of the city. The map of the nine rivers, taken as a starting point, is raised in the air and merged to the ground. The wide waving strips evoke the silk and textile industry heritage of Jiaxing and the Grand Canal.