Mime is a French artist based in Paris and Tours who works primarily in collage. After studying art market design and contemporary art, he taught himself collage, a hobby that became an obsession. He sources faces and busts from second-hand books and fashion photoshoots, drawing on Egyptian aesthetics, antiquity and architecture.
Mime alternates between classical paper collages and animated pieces, filming stop-motion sequences of moving materials and objects from above without showing his hands. He has described his work as an attempt to capture human flaws through antique subjects: “Antique civilizations inspire me and serve as my subjects, representing identities both universal and eternal in a contemporary context.” His STEEL 01 collage, based on a fashion portrait of Lera Abova found in an old magazine, combines the image with an analog paint flow drawn across a path of silver powder, and was minted on Hic et Nunc.
