Androyx series
MATHIEU BRIAND
Buste (A-s1-P/Fb/19), 2019
C-type print in acrylic artist’s frame, edition 1/3
100 x 90 x 3 cm
The works of Mathieu Briand, articulating imaginary, real and virtual, transport the visitor, make them travel without moving, opening on a world both outside and without limits but drawn from reality.
For the past three years Mathieu Briand has been working on a project call A-droyx .
Inspired by Philip K. Dick, the artist seems to ask the same question as one of those famous and prophetic novels: "do androids dream of electric sheep?" And add "Are we not, finally, the dream of this android? "
Mathieu Briand A-droyx forms are not based on the identical reproduction of the human, the perfect likeness or the impeccable imitation for maximum servitude and functionality, but on a psychological interaction which derives from The Uncanny Valley*, Unheimlich, and wabi-sabi concepts.
It is no longer a question of making "more human than human" but of making "the human more human".
A-droyx have the appearance of human body parts and have the size of a child. They evolve at will in the space whatever it is. They can be considered residents.
MATHIEU BRIAND
Buste (A-s1-P/Fb/19), 2019
C-type print in acrylic artist’s frame, edition 1/3
100 x 90 x 3 cm
MATHIEU BRIAND
Jambes (A-s1-P/Fb/19), 2019
C-type print in acrylic artist’s frame, edition 1/3
120 x 80 x 3 cm
MATHIEU BRIAND
Sleeping beauty (A-s1/16/WL/18-BoD), 2018-19
PLA, leather, electronics, aluminium, motors Hitech 9380th
30 x 100 x 20 cm
MATHIEU BRIAND
Lying under you, 2019
Fine art print with archival inks on 100% cotton acid free cotton paper in acrylic artist’s frame, edition 1/3
120 x 90 x 3 cm
MATHIEU BRIAND
The Fall, 2019
Fine art print with archival inks on 100% cotton acid free cotton paper in acrylic artist’s frame, edition 1/3
90 x 103 x 3 cm