Name: Bond Wall Light
Brand: æquō
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The Bond begins with an intimate inventory. Objects gathered since childhood, chosen, claimed, sometimes seized by instinct rather than inherited. Many once belonged to a mother, others to loved figures. They settle into daily life until occupied spaces become places of shelter. For Marie Gastini, these inert forms carry presence. Their charge is emotional. From this attachment arises a direct question. How can an affective bond take form.

Laureate of the Villa Swagatam* x Æquo prize, awarded at the 9th edition of the Design Parade festival organised by Villa Noailles in Toulon, Marie arrived in Mumbai to undertake her creative residency with Æquo in November 2025. Her project, exhibited here, is driven by a deliberate effort to gather and activate Indian craft heritage as a living and collective practice.

The textile and embroidered works were conceived through a true creative collaboration with Amal Embroideries, marking its first partnership with Æquo Gallery. Based in Mumbai, the ateliers engaged in a process of constant exchange and testing, allowing embroidery to move beyond surface and become structure and volume. Loop into loop. Knot into knot. The vocabulary of thread becomes a system of invisible bonds.

Marie Gastini for Æquo
in collaboration with Amal Embroideries
Brass, Handloom Silk
Mumbai, Maharashtra
L16 × W11 × H200 cm
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