10 days residency in Geneva : 17 genuine spinning tops

17 local artists : Dimitri Broquard, Hadrien Dussoix, Vidya Gastaldon, Kristina Irobalieva, Vincent Kohler, Alexandre Kouevi, Guy Meldem, Virginie Morillo, Gianni Motti, Flora Mottini, Frederic Post, Daniel Ruggiero, Konstantin Sgouridis, Romain Talou, Maria Trofimova, Els Vermang, Nicolas Wagnières

100% Belgian and Swiss Recycled HDPE

Editions of  3 : only one copy available for sale (n° 2/3) !

Hadrien salvaged imperfect offcuts — screw holes, unfinished edges, some sanded smooth, others left raw — and had plugs added at random before reshaping and retrimming each piece until it found its balance. Layer after layer, the accumulation starts to look like something excavated rather than built.

100% Recycled HDPE
2 elements
Approx. 8 x 8 x 1 cm (flat)
Handmade pouch by the artist
Edition of 3 — only one copy available for sale
Numbered 2/3 and signed by the artist

€205

Two faces, fear and anger, locked together by a dart. The imagery reads naive at first glance — almost cartoonish — until it tips into something violent, the “kiss” doing exactly the opposite of what it promises.

100% Recycled HDPE
3 elements
Approx. 9 x 18 x 1 cm (flat)
Handmade pouch by the artist
Edition of 3 — only one copy available for sale
Numbered 2/3 and signed by the artist

€205

A femur bone dagger stacked in a gothic rosette, carved straight out of a barrel cactus. Half shrine, half skeleton, it spins the way folk saints and gothic cathedrals share the same appetite for symbols. Sounds a bit Mexican, don’t you think ?

100% Recycled HDPE
2 elements
Approx. 11 x 15 x 1 cm (flat)
Handmade pouch by the artist
Edition of 3 — only one copy available for sale
Numbered 2/3 and signed by the artist

€205

Vidya is obsessed with an amateur painting palette — a flower-shaped board every beginner starts on. It also reads like a Christmas cookie or a birthday cake. Push it to 5, 6, 7, 8 petals and it tips into sacred geometry: the banal becomes the universe.

100% Recycled HDPE
4 elements
Approx. 12 x 10 x 1 cm (flat)
Handmade pouch by the artist
Edition of 3 — only one copy available for sale
Numbered 2/3 and signed by the artist

€205

The caduceus was Hermes’ staff before it became medicine’s emblem: two serpents coiled around a single axis, one bite that kills, one venom that cures. Frédéric spins that ambiguity into an object built entirely on balance — two forces wound around each other, never quite resolving.

100% Recycled HDPE
3 elements
Approx. 14 x 30 x 1 cm (flat)
Handmade pouch by the artist
Edition of 3 — only one copy available for sale
Numbered 2/3 and signed by the artist

€205

Romain worked on this one from a distance — fitting, since he’s one of the people behind Glitter, the recycled-plastic workshop supplying part of the material for this residency, and he’s currently traveling. His piece is a cheerful satellite: present without being there, signal standing in for the body, an omnipresence that stays invisible.

100% Recycled HDPE
7 elements
Approx. 12 x 15 x 1 cm (flat)
Handmade pouch by the artist
Edition of 3 — only one copy available for sale
Numbered 2/3 and signed by the artist

€205

Alexandre fed the workshop a flood of AI-generated shapes — and kept coming back to the sphericon, a hybrid solid that rolls in a strange, wobbling line, neither sphere nor cone. Half math puzzle, half toy, it’s the kind of form you have to spin to understand.

100% Recycled HDPE
2 elements
Approx. 15 x 15 x 1 cm (flat)
Handmade pouch by the artist
Edition of 3 — only one copy available for sale
Numbered 2/3 and signed by the artist

€205

As a photographer, Maria wanted to translate caustics into an object— the light patterns thrown by glass or water. Playing with the irregularities and contrasts of a recycled black-and-white plastic board, a simple sprinkle pattern, and a beam of infrared light, it becomes strikingly efficient once set in motion.

100% Recycled HDPE
3 elements
Approx. 14 x 6 x 1 cm (flat)
Handmade pouch by the artist
Edition of 4 — only one copy available for sale
Numbered 2/3 and signed by the artist

€205

Guy set this constraint: use as much of a given offcut as possible — scraps roughly 8 x 30 cm, their shape and pattern never chosen, only inherited. Handle and axis are cut straight out of the sheet, leaving behind a pattern of openings that reveals an hypnotic rhythm once the top is spinning.

100% Recycled HDPE
3 elements
Approx. 6 x 28 x 1 cm (flat)
Handmade pouch by the artist
Edition of 3 — only one copy available for sale
Numbered 2/3 and signed by the artist

€205

During a psychedelic experience, Dimitri saw grids — and came back obsessed, drawing them over and over in an almost compulsive series. Here the grid turns on itself, perspective folding inward until the structure gives way to a fractured, star-like vision.

100% Recycled HDPE
3 elements
Approx. 12 x 15 x 1 cm (flat)
Handmade pouch by the artist
Edition of 3 — only one copy available for sale
Numbered 2/3 and signed by the artist

€205

The silhouette of the artist’s own left hand, pierced by a Caran d’Ache pencil — made in Geneva, like the game it borrows from: that childhood dare where you stab the pencil (or the blade) between your fingers as fast as you dare. Every spin leaves a trace.

100% Recycled HDPE + 1 Caran d’Ache pen
4 elements
Approx. 19 x 17 x 1 cm (flat)
Handmade pouch by the artist
Edition of 3 — only one copy available for sale
Numbered 2/3 and signed by the artist

€205