UAV (Une Affaire Véreuse)

The drone, also called UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), was first developed for mili-tary purposes, then as a police surveillance tool and also used for recreational purposes. It could undergo a new major mutation in the universe of e-commerce. This installation is a pastiche of drone delivery which is currently being tested in the United States and has been promised to the rest of the world for several years, by Amazon for example. Although it is still absent from our daily lives, this new technology is present in the collective imagination thanks to its representation in the media, in stock images and promotional videos. These drones created from second-hand chandeliers seem to come from a retro futuristic universe in which high technology would have retained a kitsch or rus-tic appearance. It’s a humorous way to tarnish the image of the «lazy» economy magnate and to anticipate a swarming invasion of robots into the urban space. To describe my artworks, I invented the term “Tech-Naze”, a satirical and “French” version of cyberpunk, where technological dystopia rubs shoulders with pâté en croûte.

The boxes transported by these drones seem to come from a parallel universe where the logos of famous companies have mutated or merged. They are thus reminiscent of the amusing tactics of trickery employed by unscrupulous indus-trialists. The multiplicity of represented motifs evokes the permanent instability of the mercantile flow and echoes the concept of “liquid society” theorized by Zygmunt Bauman.