Ubïq

Ubiq : a mental odyssey (which borrows its title from Philip K. Dick's Ubik and Stanley Kubrick's 2001 : a space odyssey) proposes to construct a « mental space » through a narrative-mixing ravers, science-fiction and comic strips-presented through illuminations in the style of old children's books.

For this book, Mathieu Briand chose to encounter the writer Daniel Foucard, a hard-to-classify author (of, amongst others, Novo and Cold, in 2006 - and, Civil, in 2008) often associated with new textualities crossed with cybernetics, mutations and schizophrenia, and whose obsession is to want to inhabit a new territory, like the reformed pirates imagined in this book. he then slides in a few strips from his childhood hero, the Argentinean comic strip artist, Juan Giménez.

This artistic proposition is concerned with diversion, role-plays, « parallel » worlds in a playful and interactive to-and-fro between images and text. its results is a diffracted narrative in which the book becomes a playground as well as what's at stake in that artistic experience that unites the two protagonists of this book.