“(…) a francesa Aurelie Hoegy estreita as fronteiras entre arte e design ao esculpir mobiliários com rattan. Como uma dança harmônica e hipnotizante, seus projetos valorizam a conexão entre corpo humano, objeto e espaço, relação visível na chaise Wild Fibers Joali, concebida para um resort nas Maldivas. Feito com fibras naturais ecológicas coletadas na Indonésia, o artigo foi inspirado nas formas da Ilha de Joali, onde o empreendimento está situado, e no deslocamento das faixas de areia impactadas pelo Oceano Índico.”

Casa Vogue Brazil, Camila Santos

“Li Edelkoort, who appointed Aurelie Hoegy rising talent, praises her ability to promote a responsible, circular future, ethical practice and organic aesthetics.”

Rising Talent Award, Maison&Objet 2024

“Aurelie Hoegy, la fibre au corps. Une vision du Design en lien permanent
avec le mouvement.”

Le Monde, Véronique Lorelle

“(…) More recently, the works of Aurélie Hoegy reveal a return to artisan craft. This artist uses rattan fibres from a variety of creeper known for its strength and malleability: Wild Fiber Duchess (2020) is the result of research into the material’s flexibility as it moulds itself to the body’s forms and reflects an environmentally responsible approach that respects the rattan’s natural life cycle”

Center Pompidou, Mimésis. Alive Design, Marie-Ange Brayer & Olivier Zeitoun

“Guiarse por la belleza del movimiento. La flexibilidad del ratán ha permitido que la artista francesa Aurelie Hoegy capture la esencia del movimiento. “Me dejo guiar por la materia; el ratán es muy salvaje y interesante. La fibra ya tiene su propio movimiento », aseguró Hoegy, quien continúa su proceso con un diálogo en el que el material o ella deciden que hacer. Perfecta conversación que resulta en objetos que apelan a las formas orgánicas, ondeantes y desafiantes. Una estética reconocible que ha llamado la atención de espacios internacionales, como el Centre Pompidou que ha sumado el nombre de Aurelie Hoegy a su colección permanente.”

AD Mexico, Enrique Torres

“Hoegy’s approach to design bridges traditional craftsmanship with modern technology. While she crafts her pieces by hand in her Paris workshop, she collaborates with engineers, choreographers, and even hairdressers to bring her visions to life. She employs traditional modeling techniques alongside 3D printing to design tools tailored to the unique characteristics of rattan. Her work is a testament to the synergy between handcraft and
the unpredictable nature of materials, creating designs that
are vibrant and alive.”

ARCHITECT, Paul Makovsky

“Aurelie Hoegy tiene el don de embellecer la libertad. En su colección Wild Fibers redescubre la elegancia y las cualidades innatas de las fibras naturales de ratán. (…) Su arte reside precisamente en vincular la versatilidad del material con nuestro dinamismo cuando estamos sentados, convirtiendo el ratán sen la arquitectura del cuerpo en movimiento.”

Maria Isabel Ortega Acero, Room Diseño Magazine

“Hybrids of seating and sculpture, piece in designer Aurelie Hoegy’s Dancers collection question the functionality of design by “disturbing” its prime model: the chair. Placing form before function, the designer gives “intangible gestures” a physical presence.”

Maria Elena Oberti, FRAME Magazine

“ There is a primal aspect to most design disciplines. This is perhaps best encapsulated in Aurelie Hoegy’s wild Dancers, which are chairs that merge animals and humans, supple fibres with hard matter, fusing object with performance.”

Lidewij Edelkoort, world’s most famous leading trend forecaster, interview for TL Magazine on The graduate(s) exhibit, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London.

“ JW: Lastly, do you have any personal favorite works from the exhibition?
LI Edelkoort: (…) the Dancers by Aurelie Hoegy because of their wild expressionism and tactile fibrous beauty – they truly seem to be animated. ”

Lidewij Edelkoort interview for Modern Magazine on The graduate(s) exhibit, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London.

 

“Dancers is part of an exploration into performance of things. Designs enable, designs obstruct, designs frustrate, design please, designs can be moved around, designs adapt to humans. The relationship between an object and the human body is an important ingredient of almost all design. Aurelie Hoegy’s Dancers project was created in close collaboration with professional dancers, resulting in a range of chairs that seem to be intertwined with bodies in a passionate dance.”

Louise Schouwenberg & Hella Jongerius, Beyond the New on the Agency of Things, Die Neue Sammlung, Design Museum, 2017.

 

 “ Like dancers sketching a path within their space with their bodies’ movements, Aurelie Hoegy‘s Dancers express a choreographic principle. The movements of the body, and of the thoughts, help to express emotions and intentions. Their contortions explore the limits of the gesture, visually capturing the ephemeral. Each moving body leaves an invisible trace in space, and impacts the world’s movement. “

Alexandra Jaffré & Bart Hess, co curators of the exhibition Did you say bizarre?, Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne,The experiences of beauty, 2015