Founded by François Havegeer and Sacha Léopold, Syndicat takes its name from its own definition; that of a group with a view to defending and managing common interests.
In its practice, in its pedagogy (at the ISBA in Besançon then at the ESAD in Amiens) and through the curating of exhibitions (Monozukuri 1 and 2) this studio develops a questioning of the technical processes at work in the production of plastic and physical forms.

This work is the subject of research carried out by Syndicat and financed within the framework of two grants allocated by the National Center for Plastic Arts - CNAP as part of support for artistic research and by the National Foundation for Graphic and Plastic Arts. - FNAGP via its project support system. Two of the three stations in the exhibition reflect this research. They are titled "Taylor" and "Ricardo", after the names of the productivist economic theorists Frederick Winslow Taylor and David Ricardo. The objects that appear there do not claim any particular status and are presented as the state of an ongoing process.

Ricardo
support for the FNAGP project
– five offset prints in 250 copies of three posters format 40 x 60 cm.
Based on the work of exhibition photographer Aurélien Mole, three posters were designed in a mode close to the printing test. The first is concerned with orange or green elements, the next with artificial lighting in the exhibitions and the last with fine details and nuances. Each of them isolates and thus collects sensitive elements both when shooting and when printing. For each poster, an identical file was sent to five offset printing companies in Lithuania, Bulgaria, Italy (via the online printing platform Pixarprinting), Belgium (the printer Cassochrome uses HUV inks) and China. Ink load, chroma of certain details, the variation between the results is therefore exclusively linked to the technical choices and the interpretation of the files by each printer. To allow comparison, the posters are presented folded so that the most relevant areas are close together from one sheet to another.