Fabrice Hyber

What made you want to get involved in the équinoxes project?

First of all, it's a personal adventure. I've known Françoise and Jean-Luc Déchery for many years. Jean-Luc and Françoise have in their collection one of my swings, which I had sheathed in leather at the Camille Fournet factory in Picardie, accompanied by a drawing in which the thread for saddle-stitching came from The Transformation of the World in One Thread (the original drawing, from 1981, is part of the collections at the Centre Pompidou). It was the beginning of a story touching on art and commerce... 25 years later, we're still writing it, in a relationship based on trust and goodwill.

What sources of inspiration guided your work?

When Camille Fournet's team told me about a new collection focused on mobility, I wanted to know more about it and soon prototypes arrived in my studio. I immediately found that they illustrated different ways of thinking about movement: what do we take with us? Pieces of life, the beginnings of life that we move around, like a seed that blows away or is carried elsewhere by an animal... It's the essence of life."I see the bag as a continuation of the body, like a prosthetic, a gift that we give ourselves and that will become a part of ourselves elsewhere. We are constantly experimenting, adapting. We settle, and it grows.