About the work

You cannot read her. That is the point.

StellaX-1 is the most radical figure in the Futuropia Robots universe and the most deliberately opaque. Where every other android in the series offers something to the viewer a gaze, an expression, a moment of vulnerability or recognition StellaX-1 offers nothing. The visor is black, total, sealed. The helmet is clean to the point of abstraction. The body is pure line, pure form, pure presence. There is no face to read because the face has been replaced by a decision: I will not be known this way.

Di Nicolantonio works here in the tradition of the great industrial designers every unnecessary detail removed, every surface resolved to its minimum viable geometry. The result is an android that reads less like a character and more like an object and then, in the next moment, more like a statement. The mouth is still there, just visible below the visor's lower edge. She could speak. She chooses not to.

In the Futuropia universe, StellaX represents the next generation beyond Stella robots that have moved past the need to perform approachability, past the diplomatic geometry of a human face, into something more honest and more unsettling: a presence that does not require your understanding to function.

The most minimal work in the Robots series. The most powerful.

An original drawing from the Robots series by artist-futurist Sébastien Di Nicolantonio.

Edition Unique original — one of a kind

Signature Hand-signed by the artist

Authentication Sold with certificate of authenticity and gallery invoice

Technique Original drawing — pen on paper

Dimensions 29.7 × 42 cm — A3 format

Framing Unframed — framing available upon request