SCULPTURES INHUMAINES

“My early works showed and talked about the intrusion of the virtual, using computer graphics and the web, into our reality. This was in 1995. Twenty years later, I developed a series of sculptures using the most advanced technologies and different to traditional modes of sculpture production, that allowed me to make the transition from a virtual objects to a real object. I called these objects Inhuman sculptures because at no point is the human hand involved in this manufacturing process. Incredibly complex and virtuosic, the forms of these sculptures are made possible by pushing the capacity of these technological tools. Each object is a technical feat, that raises doubts about how such a construction is possible and thus, almost appearing as magically constructed. The stories that the sculptures bring to us come from an immemorial time, composed of legends, commonplace stories, and other myths - some of which come from me. The tangle of these stories creates a decor that has an imperceptible but permanent movement. By revealing the details of the Inhuman sculptures through the virtual images in this book, I propose another level of reading for these works.”

-Mathieu Briand