Mathieu Briand is a Melbourne-based artist born in Marseille, France. 

Briand works in various installation forms with computers, electronic music, robots, video technology and sculpture to explore systems of simulation, play and perception. His use of new technologies requires active participation and engagement, playing with the viewer’s point of view and questioning the reality of his/her perceptions. 

Briand’s work is situated somewhere between perceptive reality and a displacement of the imagination. He uses sound, physical forms, sensory environments and mixed media to create diverse and highly innovative artworks that invite the spectator into new zones of spatial and temporal perceptions. 

Briand leads us into his private world — a world made up of personal references, either experienced or dreamed up —and the tricks he uses are material objects and visual events alike. These references are brought together and distanced again, with multiple entrances and no known frontiers. 

After holding a large-scale solo exhibition in two parts at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, in 2004, he moved on to experience-type installations—with a project named Ubïq: A Mental Odyssey. This ambitious time-space project was mounted for the first time in 2006 at the Los Angeles REDCAT, and later at MIT List Visual Arts Center, the TATE Modern Turbine Hall, Art Basel Unlimited and, finally, at TEA on the Spanish island of Tenerife in 2009. 

For seven years Mathieu worked on a project called Et In Libertalia Ego, which was based on the idea of the pirate’s utopia of ‘Libertalia’. The first volume of the project was shown in La Maison Rouge in Paris in 2015, while the second, Et In Libertalia Ego Vol. II was presented at MONA, in Hobart in 2016. 

Briand has participated in international group and solo exhibitions in major museums such as Centre Pompidou- 

Paris/France, Bloomberg Space-London/UK, Jumex Founation-Mexico city/Mexico, Walker Art CenterMinneapolis/USA, Sharjah Art Foundation-Sharjah/UAE, ICC-Tokyo/Japan, Moca-Tapei/Taiwan, SiteSantafeSantafe/USA and Macba- Barcelone/Spain, CCP-Melbourne, Carriageworks-Sydney, MONA-Tasmania. 

He has created permanent installations including Eternal Garden, Back to Zhong Guo – Fools Move Mountains Nanling, China (2005), and SYS*017.ReR*06/PiG-EqN\15*25, for the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum, Kanazawa, Japan (2004). 

Stockroom Kyneton, gallery one
18 March / 23 April 2023
MATHIEU BRIAND
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