Atelier YokYok

58 Victor Hugo, 93170 Bagnolet - France

www.atelieryokyok.com

YokYok is a design studio founded and led by architects Samson Lacoste and Luc Pinsard since 2015. It currently consists of three partners, including Laure Qarémy, a literature teacher.
YokYok's work lies at the intersection of art and architecture. Through immersive installations, they explore the relationship with the body, material, sensory experience, geometry, and landscape. Sometimes site-specific, sometimes nomadic, these installations play with architecture and challenge their environment by shifting its fundamentals.

YokYok creates artworks and installations in festivals, museums, gardens, public squares, private spaces, and public facilities. They enjoy telling stories, weaving an imaginary world, and casting a poetic gaze on the places they encounter.
YokYok's installations have been exhibited, among others, at the International Garden Festival of Chaumont-sur-Loire (France), the Frac Occitanie Toulouse Les Abattoirs Museum (France), the National Museum of Singapore (Singapore), the Sanayeh Gardens in Beirut (Lebanon), the Marqueyssac Gardens (France), the Montmartre Museum in Paris (France), the International Garden Festival of Métis (Canada), the Light Festival in Alberobello (Italy), and the Sziget Festival in Budapest (Hungary). YokYok is the recipient of the Europe40under40 award in 2022, Surface Design Awards in 2023 and 2022, Le French Design100 by VIA in 2021 and 2019, ADC awards 2017, and Archilovers Best Project 2017. The team was invited by the Voyage à Nantes in 2020.

PROJECTS

Patchwork: ephemeral installation plays with architecture and temporality

Created for the event "Aux bords des paysages" (At the Edges of the Landscape) organized in 2025 by the municipalities of Grand Pic Saint Loup in the Hérault region of France, Patchwork is a work made up of scraps of work clothes, typically blue, that wave like a medieval banner clinging to ancient walls. Materials, eras, cultures interact, playing in this ephemeral installation

Les Chaumes. Dreamlike creatures made of straw inhabit the forest

Les Chaumes, literally "the stubbles", are three creatures with an appearance between animal and human that seem to meet in the center of the forest, in a totemic circle that appears to await visitors. Approaching them reveals their volumetric dimension that allows you to enter and play by wearing them

The Treedom Social Installation in Alberobello

The Treedom presents itself as a multifunctional pavilion discreetly nestled in the heart of the city of Alberobello, Puglia. Created by the Yok Yok studio for the Light Festival 2023, it is a low-tech wooden structure made with local materials and typical stones of the region. It offers benches and bar counters for socializing, creating a symbolic silhouette in the urban landscape.

Stage for the creative district of Shanghai. A colourful combination of geometry and materiality

For the first time the Atelier Yok Yok Studio has created a temporary pavilion in Shanghai, in the artistic district of Changning. A stage like a cobalt muffin destined to host concerts and open-air events.

Garden in France. Textile Structure blends with Light and Curiosity

A bewitching garden in Cahors, in France unravels, stretching under the gaze of curious passer-bys. The sacred architecture that overlooks it is concretized here in all its dematerialized dimensions