Tobias Bradford

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Tobias Bradford: Stagefright. Bradford’s practice looks at sentience and the uncanny, specifically in sculpted mechanical engineering such as puppets and robots.

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Tobias Bradford: Stagefright. Installation view of the 2021 exhibition at HUXLEY-PARLOUR

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Tobias Bradford: Stage Fright. Bradford’s work seeks to defamiliarise objects by replicating ordinary movements on a technical level, and in turn, making the mundane, strange.

B. Sweden1993

Biography

Tobias Bradford’s work engages in philosophical discussions around autonomy and the ‘self’. His animated installations incorporate mechanical engineering, robotics and puppetry which collectively forge an uncanny reality. By repeating everyday actions or motions, Bradford’s semi-sentient objects become defamiliarised and disassociated from that which they represent.

Tobias Bradford was born in Örebro, Sweden in 1993. Graduating from Goldsmiths University of London in 2019, Bradford is currently on a break from his Masters at the Royal Art Institute of Stockholm. He has exhibited widely across Stockholm, Sweden, and London, UK, most recently exhibiting at Future Watch: Tio Konstnärer i tiden at Stockholm Kulturhuset.

Bradford currently lives and works between London and Stockholm.

‘I do find it interesting to imagine these robotic performers have stage fright…In the context of technology and robotics, its nice for them to be quite unimpressive or disappointing, theres something rebellious in that.’ ^{Tobias Bradford}