Within Corpus Gallery, Nicolas Verschaeve presents excerpts from several projects recently carried out in collaboration with various manufacturers. Based between Brussels and the Northern Vosges, and engaged for several years in a practice rooted in fieldwork, he composes through his stopovers with what overflows from objects and what precedes them — a set of geographical, historical, social, economic and political parameters. At the heart of his work as a designer of objects and spaces, he seeks to reveal the active forces at play in the emergence of forms and uses, making legible the processes that shape our material environments. Nicolas Verschaeve favours considered operations at the scale of the manufactory and semi-product factories over technical feats: a brickworks in Alsace, a tool-handle maker in Burgundy, a sawmill in Moselle. These collaborations reveal the productive landscape that persists in a deindustrialised country. Intuitions that seek to express — through dialogue with the existing and an economy of means — the field of possibilities still to explore, the desirable opportunities of a frugal production built from the forces at hand.