Pling Klang

2 Rue des Ajoncs, Saint-Lyphard

As a couple, assembling a kit furniture: is it ordinary? Not really! Étienne Manceau and Mathieu Despoisse turn this deeply personal challenge into an acrobatic playground, a way to think about the mechanics of the loving couple, between DIY, humor, and confidences. Stumbling over screws that roll, wrangling with manuals that resist, we all know the feeling. Their goal is simple: assemble this IKEA shelf and hang it on the wall. Laughs, clashes, and eventual reconciliation — they question the couple as a social invention and masculinity as a construction. In combining…