Passé Present Futur

Loose Joints is proud to announce Passé Présent Futur, a groundbreaking collaboration between Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, curator Emmanuelle Luciani, and Loose Joints Publishing. Contributing to the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès' prestigious Artists' Residencies series, this new chapter sees Luciani inviting four artists—Jenna Kaës, Mounir Ayache, Salomé Chatriot, and Jacopo Pagin—into the heart of Hermès’ production ateliers.

Under Luciani’s visionary curatorship, each residency dissolves the boundary between classical craft and contemporary myth-making. Her distinctive interdisciplinary ethos as founder of Marseille-based Southway Studio infuses the program with a spirit that is both reverent of the past and alive to the present. Each artist has been invited to engage deeply with the savoir-faire of Hermès artisans working in silk, leather, crystal and metal—resulting in wholly new artistic gestures shaped by the material logic of the atelier.

Anchored by a newly commissioned photographic series by Brazilian photographer Marcelo Gomes, whose sensuous, textural images follow each artist at work and mirror the tactility of process, the publication also includes further contributions by French photographer Tadzio, a Fondation d’entreprise Hermès long-term partner, skilled in capturing crafts and material through a sensitive approach. Through these images, alongside interviews with the artists and the artisans who supported them, Passé Présent Futur emerges as a singular, experimental book object offering a deconstructed lens into the process of making.