Using a flatbed scanner as a way of documenting the world, ArmandC_ creates warped portraits to cling on to memories and find humour in the uncanny. After countless attempts at flattening the world into scanned imagery, Armand became interested in reversing the process, to “emancipate” subjects from their flatness through volume. In his sculptural works, he experiments with 3D printing in order to feel the hyper-realistic textures of his distortions. For Armand, scanography is a process of documenting, archiving and attempting to bring permanence to an ephemeral world – “because by flattening my world, its objects and my relations, it helped me discover and rediscover my friends and my life to such an extent that I cannot imagine living without it anymore,” says Armand. Born from the experience of loss and the subsequent need to preserve memories, to Armand the scanner is an “archive machine” that reconciles his attachment to the fleeting physical world. #ItsNiceThat