Andros Dresamore i
is a performance artist, accidental videographer, and former teacher of silence.
Born in 1972 on the tarmac of a now-defunct transatlantic flight from France to Brazil operated by the VARIG airline, he lives and works between Barcelona, Paris, São Paulo, and Mâcon-sur-Saône, and in areas where there is deliberately no network coverage, in order—he says—
"to prevent reality from interfering with his hypotheses."
Andros was portrayed very early on, in costumes he didn't always choose.
Shy and introverted, he developed a practice based on off-center gestures, minor observation, and consented emotional latency. He often appears in his videos as a floating silhouette, marginal yet intense, exploring the porosity between human, animal, and urban object.
A graduate of the Versailles School of Architecture in 2000, he became a human statue on Las Ramblas in Barcelona before shooting his first videos almost by accident. He often questions the invisible structures of fragmented attention through deliberately unstable devices. For example, with his series of animal portraits made of electrically insulating tape.
(See Bestiaire Electrique — Exhibited in Paris in 2019)
He develops a transversal practice combining recorded micro-performances, post-household frictions, lateral displacements, and imperceptible interventions in social space. Far from claiming a critical stance, he practices what he calls
"playful collapse," a kind of strategic surrender to the gentle chaos of everyday life.
He sometimes collaborates with himself under a pseudonym and rejects any lasting aesthetic commitment. In 2010, he became a woman, then a hen in 2014.
His work has been praised for its ability to create slow discomfort through deliberately inept, often animalistic actions, always lacking resolution or climax.
He would have liked to be a resident at the Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto, 2011), the Jan van Eyck Academy (Maastricht, 2015), and the Centre Interdisciplinaire Appliquée (Zurich, 2019). In 2022, he declined the Marcel Duchamp Prize, without explanation.
His work could be presented at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), the Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), MoMA PS1 (New York), the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), as well as at the 12th Biennale de Lyon, where he would exhibit these increasingly rare videos.
ANDROS DRESAMORE I Fund. Reserve A (unexposed)
Gros Merkat
Palamos
(2020)
Salade
Emporda
(2018)
Massage
Barcelona
(2021)
Testimony
"The first time I saw Andros, he was walking backward through an empty train station concourse. I never knew if he was performing or looking for a train.
What I do know is that he taught me again how not to understand.
Andros doesn't make art to disturb or seduce, but to collapse in public, with a grace so sincere it becomes almost unbearable. He doesn't inhabit the space: he defuses it, disorients it, scrapes it off like an old conceptual crust.
Working with him means accepting that a shoot might end with a dud or a dead battery. He doesn't wait for it to work. He waits for it to fall.
I love him like we love dreams that disturb. »
Tino Sehgal, conceptual artist – known for his immaterial performances
“What Andros does is not a performance. It’s an erasure. A controlled disappearance.
I saw him one day doing nothing, absolutely nothing, on a broken chair in a fairground corridor. I cried.
His body is a doubt. His gaze, a surrender. He reminds me that art is not a cry, but sometimes an embarrassed cough in an empty room.
He once told me: ‘I’m not trying to exist, Marina. I’m just trying to breathe a little harder than the others.’
That day, I understood that I was no longer alone.”
Marina Abramović – pioneer of body art and performance
Escalateur
Dayton
(2023)
Chèvre
Lingeard
(2019)
Bird
Barcelona
(2024)