We are three, born in 84, 85, 86, between Paris and Britany. We evolve between things we find in the street and music, to make images. We did Château-vacant to build a comun field of experimentation, even if we are not always in the same graphic mood. More and more it walks. We are friend at first, but we now manage to work together. For the future, we'd like to make kinds of scenography. But it's just an example. We'd like to do many things.

www.chateau-vacant.com

• For the people who don't know your work - how would you describe it ?


• We are three boys who spend time having fun, to be then inspired at work. We use our hands to go from what we meet to ideas and finally images. It's physically true, most of our images are done with materials we found in the street.

• What are the key themes running through your practice?


• There is no particular theme. That's more a way of thinking which is the link between all the things we do.

• Your favorite place on earth?


• Yannick : "Une terrasse."
• Baptiste : It depends on where my friends are.
• Lémuel : The air.

• What influences your work?


• Baptiste : Factory Records / Paul Cox
• Yannick : Erwin Wurm / Joël Meyerowitz / Paul Kalkbrenner
• Lémuel : Jan Svankmajer / Mathew Barney

• What music are you into right now?


• Yannick & Lémuel : Minimal electro !
• Baptiste : Joy Division, John Foxx, The Knife, Sanity Plexus.

• Describe your thought & design process...


• We receive a proposal. We discuss, to know who will take part, or not, in this project. We think about it individually. Then we put all the ideas on the table. We keep only the convincing things. Then we do it.

• Which emerging artists are you looking forward to seeing more of?


• Corentin Grosman, Jérémie Piningre, Pipi Parade, Charles Mazé & Coline Sunier, Carl Kleiner, RBG6, Mégaforce, Gnoberg, Vincent Croguennec, Letha Wilson, BGL, Los Francos Tiradores.

• Favorite place on the internet?


• Our mail box.

• Do you have any upcoming projects/exhibitions we should know about?


• We work for the label Abracada, to realize the next EP cover of The Aikiu. We do the next cover of Étapes Magazine. We plan to use ceramic for an upcoming project.

• Tell us something we don't know - but should...


• The two most wonderful things we dicovered last days :
• 1. Mémoires d'Hadrien, written by Marguerite Yourcenar.
• 2. Igloofest, an electro festival in Montreal, which takes place outside, under and over the snow.