Florian Sanna's practice is that of a monk-soldier of material and DIY. Guided by a strict ethic of 100% homemade, he designs his universes from recycled cardboard, creates his characters' outfits, and hunts, repurposes, and tinkers with everyday objects to integrate them into his lore and bring to life the environments in which his characters evolve.

He also produces all the graphic elements present in his images (propaganda newspapers, charters, regulatory decrees) to give his fiction the weight of historical reality.

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Exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS

2026 TIFA 2024/2025 Winners Exhibition Le Déco Gallery. Tokyo, Japan

2025 Festival Hors Cadre Mauvaizélève — Retrospective series 2 to 5 Théâtre du Minotaure, Béziers

2022 Base Alpha - Mauvaizélève — First exhibition of the series, Montpellier

Prices & Press

AWARDS & HONORS

- TIFA 2025: Bronze for the Mauvaizélève 2022-2025 portfolio - professional category

- FAPA 2025: Nominated for the Fine Art Photography Awards - fine art - professional

- FAPA 2026: Nominated for the Fine Art Photography Awards - fine art category - professional

- ND Magazine Awards 2025: Honorable Mention in Fine Art category - professional

- APA 2025: Honorable Mention in Fine Art category - professional

- APA 2024: Honorable Mention in Fine Art category - professional

- APA 2023: Honorable Mention in Fine Art category - professional

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PRESS

Focus Magazine - n°120

Art Print - Blog

His universe evolves through narrative and visual cycles, materializing the hardening of control structures:

  • Mauvaizélève: The foundations of the narrative. The introduction of the figure of indiscipline in the face of the framework, the affirmation of a hybrid aesthetic between urban subversion and studio rigor.
  • Les Zotres: The shift towards the collective and otherness. The exploration of marginal silhouettes, outcasts, and invisible communities that survive in the blind spots of the system.
  • Entre 4 Murs: The brutalist and architectural turning point. In an ideal world, the artist would build his cities at full scale, but the confines of the studio impose their own law: the construction of 1/100th scale models.

Here, the digital tool acts as a precision scalpel. Through image superimposition and focus stacking, Florian Sanna merges reality and miniature, inserting his human-sized characters into the heart of his cardboard architectures. Photography seals these meticulous preparations; it becomes a cold capture that elevates the final image to the status of evidence or forbidden archive.

GENERATIVE AI MANIFESTO: In the era of algorithmically calculated pixels, the studio imposes physical resistance. No universe is generated by a command prompt: every square millimeter of the work originates from an original photograph, a volume, a cutout, or a collage. The illusion is not virtual; it is built, palpable.