Effir Libilbéhéty is a Brussels’ based designer. After obtaining their Bachelor’s in Graphic Design (2014), a training in Gender Studies (2021) and Bachelor’s in Architectural Design (2021), Effir worked as both a spatial designer, creative director and coordinator.
Their practice of ‘design of interactions in real life’ is not to look at but to experience. Objectification and the freak body, incomfort and chaos, community and nomadism, are themes flirted with to force reflection on what we is merely socially de/re/constructed. These experiences bring everyone on the same level : Effir, the works and the public are all subjected to the same submission.
Navigating fields such as spatial design, graphic design, object design, kink scene and DIY-culture, Effir’s abilities extend to woodworking and metal, as well as working with resins, textile, digital tools or humans.
Through a raw, candid and angular aesthetic, each work screams « F*ck Your Discomfort » and intends to confront the viewer with their own
perversion.
The body is the center piece of their practice, as Effir is in a constant research to experience theirs. From being a dehumanized, unwanted and unincluded body, a sense of catharsis arrises by using it purposefully. Through self-objectification, creating new standards and ritual or developing their own tools.
Video edited by Tania Phuong.
contacts
public
education
Architectural design (BA)
Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam, NL)
2018 – 2021
Gender studies (MOOC)
University of Geneva (online)
2020 – 2021
Graphic design (BA)
Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques (Toulouse, FR)
2012 – 2014
fellowship
‘Talented Interior Design’, AIT and Sto-Foundation, Hamburg (DE), 2020
exhibitions
‘They Party’, LDC, Brussels (B), 2021
‘Archiweek’ opening scenography, 51N4E and Archiweek, Brussels (B), 2021
‘Rietveld Uncut’ (online), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL), 2020
‘Open Day Pavilion’, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL), 2020
‘Rietveld Uncut’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL), 2019
‘From Anywhere to Anywhere’, Maison des Arts de Schaerbeek, Brussels (BE), 2019
‘Synesthesia’, Garden of Georges Labit Museum, Toulouse (FR), 2018
‘Train de Vie’, Silver Owl, Périgueux (FR), 2018
‘X-Art’, Barallel, Toulouse (FR), 2018
‘Synesthesia’, Garden of Georges Labit Museum, Toulouse (FR), 2017
‘Drift’, Garden of Les Abattoirs Museum, Toulouse (FR), 2017
‘Les Croisées Créatives’, Radio Radio, Toulouse (FR), 2017
‘Urban Jungle’, Le Connexion, Toulouse (FR), 2017
‘Como Pedro por Mi Casa’, International Festival of Illustrated Books, Barcelone (ES), 2017
‘Train de Vie’, Ombres Blanches, Toulouse (FR), 2016
‘Les Croisées Créatives’, Lieu-Commun, Toulouse (FR), 2016
‘Déconstruction’, Le Connexion, Toulouse (FR), 2016
publications
‘Jours ordinaires’, one volume, Belgium, 2022
‘**ck your selves’, graduation thesis, Rietveld Academie, Netherlands, 2021
‘As far as I know’, AIT Magazine, AIT-Dialog, Germany, 2021
‘The appendage of the social game’ (co-author Tania Phuong), AIT Magazine, AIT-Dialog, Germany, 2021
‘Human, oh too human’ (co-author Tania Phuong), AIT Magazine, AIT-Dialog, Germany, 2021
‘Géométrisation’, six volume, France, 2018
‘Enigmatic’, one volume, France, 2017
‘Control’, one volume, France, 2016
‘Sensibilité géométrique’, one volume, France, 2015
tutoring and panel
‘Un point inclusif·ve”, Théâtre National, Brussels, 2023
‘ Ecriture inclusive : le language par et pour’, La Bellone, Brussels, 2023
coordination
Trans Solidarity Funds Belgium, Brussels, 2023, 2024
FAME festival, Brussels, Belgium, 2022, 2023, 2024 .
Brussels Trans Protest, Brussels, Belgium, 2022
Nagual, Toulouse, France, 2017, 2018
Aparté, Toulouse, France, 2015, 2016, 2017
Komposit, Toulouse, France, 2014, 2015
interviews
‘Héritages et Archives’ Brussels, 2024
‘Portrait Sonore’, Aparté , Toulouse FR, 2017