Loucas Braconnier, known as Figure31, is a visual artist based in Montreal who works in digital photography and blockchain art. His practice explores the specificity of the blockchain as a dynamic medium and the conceptual implications of collecting such works, repurposing photographic techniques to reveal new modes of perception generated by technology.
Braconnier was born in the late 1990s and holds a bachelor's degree in Visual and Media Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal, having previously studied photography, cinema and media. In 2023 his project LUX was included in “Proof of X — Blockchain As A New Medium For Art”, a group exhibition in Tokyo organised through a grassroots, decentralised curatorial process. The work frames each token as a window onto a family of manipulated photographs of the sun, giving collectors a collective rather than singular claim on the images. Later that year he joined Jeffrey Scudder and Sten in “MATERIAL”, an exhibition presented by Wild.
