Samy San’s work explores our relationship to intimacy and value, drawing on the world of toys as a space for projection, memory and attachment. It sits within a broader reflection on technological shifts — from the emergence of the computer to recent developments in artificial intelligence — while engaging with the aesthetics of robotics and the visual language they generate.

Years of travel between France and Asia shaped his vocabulary, as did the growing presence of Japanese culture in France. His practice operates in that cross-cultural space.

He builds sculpturally, assembling everyday elements — toy fragments, plastic parts, industrial components — through accumulation, selection and recomposition. Guided by a logic close to play, he arrives at dense, hybrid forms where memory, visual culture and technology meet, balanced between the familiar and the uncanny.

Samy San is the first non-Japanese artist to join the gallery.