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→ dieselporn
A0 - 84,1 x 118,9 cm
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The project aims to honor the often-overlooked craftsmanship of industrial trades while exploring the tension between tradition, human expertise, and modern technology. By utilizing digital techniques, including artificial intelligence, the pieces blends these elements into a coherent and impactful work, with seamless visual transitions that create a fluid, organic appearance.
The dense and chaotic accumulation of components conveys a brutal, dystopian vision of industry, symbolizing the difficult and exhausting conditions often faced by workers in these fields. The tangled metal parts seem to struggle for space within an oppressive system, representing the violence and intensity of industrial environments. Drawing inspiration from the Futurist movement, which celebrated the energy and dynamism of modernity, the series captures the raw force of contemporary machinery in opposition of human work while highlighting the precision and beauty inherent in industrial materials. The empty space at the center suggests the possibility of something emerging from this mechanical chaos, leaving room for reflection on the place of craftsmanship in a rapidly evolving, technology-driven world.
→ crackhead memories (series)
Digital artwork
80g offset paper
A0 - 84,1 x 118,9 cm
2024
xanny
In a very intimate approach, touching on the themes of violence and illness, this series presents five digital drawings representing the memory of a past marked by drug addiction, both repulsive and oddly comforting. I worked from photographs, which I reinterpreted on tracing paper before vectorizing them in Adobe software.
This process aims to create an almost psychedelic image, seeking to capture the blur, chaos, and melancholy of those memories.
→ blurry hands (series)
80g offset paper
A0 - 84,1 x 118,9 cm
xanny
This series of illustrations without glasses follows a tactile and sensory-based process. The work begins with the idea of reproducing a hand, which serves as both a central subject and a visual measuring tool. Due to limited vision, the farthest perceivable distance is that of an outstretched hand.
The process begins by using a brush, carefully attached to the end of a bamboo stick, to trace the contours of the hand onto a large sheet. Instead of relying on sight to guide each movement, it is muscle memory and the sensation of the brush that allow the lines to form. The bamboo, as an extension of the arm, adds extra distance, making the gesture more instinctive and less precise, creating a unique interaction between the artist and the medium. Each stroke thus becomes an exploration of the connection between perception and representation, where seeing is replaced by the act of creating.
→ Les paradis artificiels
A0 - 84,1 x 118,9 cm
xanny
This work intends to explore patterns, shapes and colors to put the sens of detail at the center of the poster. No matter the distance, the eye stays aware. The poster invites the spectator to dive in the )graphic( universe of artificial paradises.
→ look up (look alive)
Bus shelter - 118,9 x 175 cm
xanny
This artwork was inspired by the monument to the deportees of the WWII in the city of Orthez. This out of format poster show a skeletal character, diverted from his bible, attracted by the sky, like if he wants to go back to the essential. Giving up culture and get back to the essence of human kind. Like if civilization and religion makes us skeletons, puppets of ourselves.
→ untitled (murder)
A4 - 29,7 x 21 cm
xanny
→ human feelings (self portrait)
A3 - 29,7 x 42 cm
xanny
Working on the theme of emotions and feeling, throughout the image of hands. How does the humans reacts to a tsunami of emotions, that can overwhelm them? Should we build a dike, a barrage, or adventure ourselves in the water ?
→ impact
A2 - 42 x 59,4 cm
xanny
→ little boys are not always right
A2 - 42 x 59,4 cm
xanny
→ xans/scars (series)
A2 - 42 x 59,4 cm
xanny
xans/scars is a project started at the end of 2019, talking about shameless of discussed topics. Intended to be glued in the streets and declined in clothes, these posters come from my first period of graphic research on propaganda. I wanted a very specific graphic charter to create a full universe, which must challenge and strike the spectator. The message must resonate into the public’s mind, wich justifies the use of propaganda..
→ untitled (desert)
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