(Answers provided Tassou)
My style is called Cybertrash. I’m interested in the electronic era’s waste. My sculptures are made of components scavenged from, broken, obsolete or simply outdated machines. Cybertrash seeks to show that there is beauty in this technological complexity that previous generations could’nt suspect.
Each sculpture has its own wooden crate with handles which allows it to travel easily by carrier.
For small items it is possible to call La Poste by making a double shockproof cardboard packaging.
Cybertrash technique uses adhesive bonding. I use neoprene glue and wood glue. My sculptures are very tough. They are often internally reinforced with metal to avoid distortion over time. They are the antiques of the future. They are designed to last through time.
This is an important concern for me because Cybertrash is also a work of electronic memory that will make perfect sense in the future. It is therefore important to me to achieve a solid build …
The components are generally rot-proof. They are often made of ceramic, silica, aluminum or stainless alloys.
When using copper, I take care to apply three layers of UV varnish on the parts in contact with air.
The components that could prove too fragile, oxidized, with a risk of corrosion or harmful aging are not retained during the dismantling of machines and are therefore excluded from the beginning.
Most of the sculptures are unique pieces entirely different from each other in format, shape or overall color.
By the way, it is very difficult to make twice the same piece as the materials that I can source are often available in limited quantities.
However there are some pieces such as camera- or phone totems which differ only by the objects they are composed of. They have nearly the same shape and size, only the assembled devices are different.