Aurelien Bory and his Compagnie 111 present an insight on the bond between man and machine. Two men and a platform inhabited by an industrial robotic arm – this is where this high precision (bio) mechanical play takes place.

The pertinence of the questions put by Sans Objet is obtained in a way in which it is possible to observe with poetry and even with some humour the development of practices going back to the early vanguard, a time when machine and body fused with art and politics.

Aurélien Bory was born in 1972, in Colmar, France. He attended Physics courses at the University of Strasbourg. These studies took him to work in the field of Architectural Acoustics. In 1995, he takes leave from his science path and gets in the creation studio of the Lido, Centre des arts du cirque in Toulouse. The artist Mladen Materic, whom he met at Théâtre Garonne, introduced him to the acting crafts. From 1998 to 2000, Bory joined the Materic's theater group, Théâtre Tatoo.

In 2000, he founded Compagnie 111 in Toulouse. He develops a «physical theatre» singular and hybrid, a crossbreeding of different arts (circus, dance, visual art, and music).

From La trilogie sur l'espace, founding project marked by the collaboration with new-yorker Phil Soltanoff, to his last creation aSH (2018), and Espæce (2016) created for the 70th edition of Festival d'Avignon, his repertoire of eleven creations is played in prestigious theatres in France and overseas.

Aurélien Bory is supported by a number of theatres, namely by the TNT – Théâtre National de Toulouse and the Grand T théâtre de Loire-Atlantique in Nantes where he was an associate artist from 2011 to 2016. His questioning on space took him to explore new scenes and to invest in new artistic areas such as architecture, urbanism or visual arts. His reflection on space has been pursued with the artistic and architectural prefiguration of the former Théâtre de la Digue as a project to rethink a place for the performing arts.