Open Studio: Alexandre Caretti, TBG+S and Bétonsalon Dublin/Paris Residency Exchange 2026

Alexandre Caretti’s work narrates without explaining, drawing on architecture, materiality, gentleness, humour, and play to provoke an encounter with his work and the stories that inhabit it. His research explores systems of politics and intimacy. He has recently been looking at the systems around the European Union, such as its Parliament in Strasbourg and its Central Bank in Frankfurt. During his time spent in Dublin, nearby Ireland’s EU Presidency chambers in Dublin Castle and Kilmainham, he has been examining these systems in an Irish context. Caretti invites the public to drop in and visit his studio between 2.30–6pm, with an open invitation to join for some refreshments after the event.

Alexandre Caretti is drawn to the paraphernalia, furniture and settings, and ways that these spaces of dialogue, democracy and power are configured. He uses found materials as well as textile, paper, cardboard, drawing, paint, motors, lights and more. Objects and models take the form of sculptures made from found materials, offering a fragmented glimpse into his subject matter. He assembles vignettes orchestrating a space, enjoying the potential for cinematic atmosphere, hinting at, rather than directing a story. He is interested in flaws: failed pieces of furniture can become a successful sculpture, a sleeve cut from a jacket can become its own thing and occupy a new space. His sculptural language appears as both ephemeral and concrete. The possibilities of what materials offer and how things exist can be reconfigured into something other, yet retain a ghost or sense of their origin story. This is what underpins his sculptural language.

With special thanks to The French Embassy in Ireland, Dublin City Council, Bétonsalon, Paris, Ireland’s Embassy in France and the Arts Council.