In the Booth: PICHULIK x Matteo Cibic Host MAMATONGUE: An Experimental Research Project

Italian designer Matteo Cibic and South African jewellery designer Katherine Pichulik collaborate to explore a new visual vernacular, merging their distinct creative languages through music, design, and assemblage.

This experimental research project started as a digital and audio conversation between Cape Town and Milan, an intercultural curiosity about each other's personal and national identities and iconography. The project unfolds as a multisensory dialogue, shaping new narratives through texture, composition, and sound.

Cibic’s whimsical and surrealist approach to objects intersects with Pichulik’s symbolic and sculptural use of rope and brass. The result is an evolving design symphony, where movement, heritage, and abstraction coalesce into unexpected and playful forms.