The concept of hyperreality, proposed by Jean Baudrillard and explored by many authors, is described as a syndrome of postmodern times, exacerbated by our digital civilization, in which we are led to confuse reality with a simulated reality: fictional, augmented, virtual, AI-generated, or experienced online in digital worlds.
Echoing this, I imagine the hyperSelf as a syndrome of confusion between the lived self and the simulated self: a digital self — modeled, augmented, reproduced, multiplied, staged, published, shared, and liked. By extension, this includes the full spectrum of our multiple personalities: those we embody alternately behind a screen or without a screen, those we once were and those we will become, but also all the variations of ourselves that exist through the gaze of others as much as through our own.


Hyperself is an ongoing serie of sculptures and installations playing around with this theme, mostly using mirrors, large concave surfaces and motorization.

Reversing the relationship between observer and observed, the artworks look at us, multiply us, expose us, magnify us, and feed us endlessly with our own image.
In a civilization where self-staging is omnipresent, where 'A.I.' feeds on billions of images shared online, and where privacy has never been more threatened or commodified, these artworks resonate with some of the major issues surrounding identity in the digital age.
The artworks also respond to the idea of a digital panopticon, as proposed by Alain Damasio, with their concave surface literally becoming a fragment of the cognitive bubble in which GAFAM algorithms confine us. If this bubble were tangible, it might be lined with mirrors constantly reflecting our own image back at us.

Various cupulas made out of acrylic mirror :
(colored acrylic mirror, wood)

The Closet is a sculpture revealing iridescent, colorful animations only through a mirror, using a play of polarized light :
(walnut wood, acrylic mirror, polarized filters, video screen, raspberry pi)

Mesmerize is a sculpture playing with one's self-awareness, blurring and splitting your own image, using optical illusion inspired patterns made out an alternance of black acrylic and acrylic mirrors :
(colored acrylic mirror, wood)