Originally from Örebro, Sweden, artist Tobias Bradford currently resides between Stockholm and London. In his work, he explores the boundaries between reality and illusion. Bradford’s animated sculptural installations draw on ideas from mechanical engineering, robotics, and puppetry. Not only he creates captivating environments and objects, but they also appear as if they act independently. By disrupting the notion of self-agency, his pieces create a tension between rational thought and one’s emotional experience of the world.

Tobias Bradford himself explains that the thrill of making art out of machines comes from him figuratively creating something that is alive. In fact, he finds modern machines difficult to interpret. He believes that the sound of a refrigerator fan buzzing in an unpredictable manner is mysterious and can be seen as an attempt at communication.