Olivia Wünsche, 2026
Journal
Publisher: Olivia Wünsche
Dimensions: 25 x 18 cm
Publisher: Olivia Wünsche
Dimensions: 25 x 18 cm
Vanguard Union Press is an artistic reflection platform founded by Olivia Wünsche, born from a desire to slow down our gaze on the figures shaping contemporary creation. Each issue focuses on a single subject, creating living monographs infused with a strong trust between the author and her interviewee, blending photographs and interviews to reveal both the work and the person behind it. In an editorial landscape saturated with fast images and short formats, Vanguard Union Press champions a slow temporality, a proximity built with patience, and an uncompromising standard of sincerity that brings this publication as close to a document as it is to a work of art. This third issue continues this editorial line by dedicating itself to Ronan Bouroullec.
Through an extensive interview and a series of photographs taken within the intimacy of his daily life, it reveals the quiet tensions running through Ronan Bouroullec today: between public exposure and withdrawal, between heritage and reinvention, between the act of creating and the need to be alone with oneself. For Bouroullec,the creative approach stems from lack rather than privilege: a rural Breton childhood, without easy access to culture, which pushed him to invent his own method rather than inherit one. His relationship with the land and his family's agricultural background fosters a distrust of abstraction—whether ecological, theoretical, or cultural—in favor of concrete attention to physical things. He claims doubt as a driver of creation, against any posture of mastery: according to him, drawing searches rather than executes. Deeply rooted in the world of design, he nevertheless critiques its elitism and seeks to produce transversal objects that abolish boundaries between social classes. Subtly, a discreet political discourse infuses his practice: a plea for decentralization, and an idea of cooperation as the capacity to build despite disagreement, rather than as a superficial agreement.
