“Editions 8888, curator and creator of visionary objects”

Bringing together more than 25 Quebec creators under the theme Wet Metal, Editions 8888 offers up a series of objects inspired by Quebec counterculture, brutalism, postmodernism, noise, punk and metal music, sci-fi...

Montreal - Editions 8888 emerges from the darkness. Guided by the vision of its founder Jean-Michel Gadoua, Editions 8888 aims to develop collections of objects that reject contemporary priorities and unquestionably adopt the posture of discomfort.

Gadoua espouses a dark and daring aesthetic that draws heavily on counterculture, as well as revolutionary artistic and political movements. Obvious nods to brutalism and postmodernism are layered with bursts of noise, punk and metal music, and sci-fi images clash with designs lifted straight from 80s skateboard culture.

"The intention of 8888 is to create a collective, to aim to set up a Quebec artistic movement, to provoke,” says Gadoua. “I'm interested in everything, so I can't just stop at the furniture. I want to edit everything, whether it's a table or a perfume.”

The philosophy behind Editions 8888 is illustrated by the made-up word BrutaluxeTM. Behind this evocative portmanteau lies a deep desire to celebrate – elevate, even – raw materials and spontaneous gestures. BrutaluxeTM is the antidote to industrial and impersonal manufacturing: it is about the poetry of imperfection. Even the less tangible objects, such as musical creations or poems, will be imbued with this primal idea. BrutaluxeTM is keeping it extracorporeal.

Éditions 8888 curates and creates all. Before, now and forever. Here and elsewhere, for all.

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Wet Metal: A debut collection
For this first collection, Editions 8888 mandated its collaborators to imagine the objects of a brutal and metal everyday life. Perforated steel and reinforced concrete, the new optimism of a post-dystopian world. The new metal, molded and wet.

Although furniture represents the hard core of this collection, it also offers accessories, clothing, music, sculptures, skincare and a skateboard collection. Editions 8888 curates and creates everything. The Wet Metal collection comes in more than 40 pieces.