CHARACTER Odarr

Metal, foam, silicone

2018-2019

This realistic and articulated figurine we made, is a way for us to make our sculptural work live outside our workshop. This figurine was inspired by the American actor Ron Perlman.

We chose an actor, with an atypical face, because he easily evokes the figure of a monstrous being. We wanted this figurine to be a representation of a human being but also to give way to other fantasies regarding its nature.

The realism that we chose to apply to its fabrication is a way for us to ease its setting into reality. In doing so, our environment becomes a set and once the character is staged in front of the camera, the distinction between what belongs to the living and to the non-living becomes more troubling.

We wanted to reconnect with the stop-motion animation processes used in fantasy movies that fed our imaginations. In these movies, at the sight of the creatures, we immediately knew that these articulated figurines were staged objects but that did not interfere with the magic produced by this unique tactile process.

This character will be the figurehead of a shifted vision, backward of progress and modernity in our next stories.