Antoine Nessi focuses his work on the exploration of totalising machines and their negative portrayal of the submission of beings to an exaggerated productivity. The project Anthropophagic Architectures sets out to produce a series of models that, understood as architectures/machines, reproduce small, penetrable spaces

inspired by the multiple contemporary devices that control body and merchandise. A whole series of non-places such as food processing factories; export places like customs posts; distribution places like supermarket aisles; citizen transit spaces such as public transport, etc., which apparently functional but where bodies get lost between production and consumption, work and leisure, care and illness, pleasure and pain. Erratic spaces that appear familiar but whose function we can no longer identify.

Antoine Nessi (Ivry-sur-Seine, France, 1985) lives and works in Marseilles, France. His work bridges two worlds: that of art and that of industry, where the inanimate takes on an almost organic quality, as if coming to life in its own right. He studied at the National School of Art in Dijon, the National School of Decorative Arts (ENSAD) in Paris, and the National School of Fine Arts in Paris (ENSBA). His recent solo exhibitions include Monuments pour la société cauchemardesque (Monuments for the nightmarish society) at Galerie Interface, Dijon (2015), and L’Usine moderne en 360 m³ (The modern factory in 360 m³), Lyon (2013). His work is part of numerous group exhibitions, such as Place publique at Fonderie Darling, Montreal (2015), Être Chose at Ciap Vassivière/Treignac Project (2015), and The promise of moving things, curated by Chris Sharp at Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine (2014), among others. In 2010, he participated in a residency programme at Fonderie Darling, Montreal, Quebec.