I think of my work as a form of emotional architecture: structures that help people collectively process change, rehearse possible futures, and experience themselves differently—perhaps more tenderly—in relationship to one another. These structures function like dreaming apparatuses—collaborative systems for imagining futures that do not yet exist, and for inventing the stories and ceremonies that might help us inhabit them.

Many of my projects are expansive conceptual umbrellas: long-term  frameworks designed to encompass the possibility of drawing, performance, sculpture, sound-based work, and public ceremonies. Often evolving over years and in collaboration with other artists, scientists, musicians, chefs, students, cultural institutions and local communities, these scaffoldings gradually bloom into verdant worlds with their own aesthetics, rituals and emotional logic.

Ferrandi actively works to ‘sculpt’ the very air between people.

—International House of Japan