ARTIST
Maxime Matias
Graphic designer and Visual artist
France-based graphic designer and visual artist. After graduation from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, he founded the independent design studio Rimasùu. After a residency at Les Ateliers de Paris, he has actively collaborated with architects, designers, and artisans, blending typography, photography, printing techniques, and olfactory art to create interdisciplinary graphic works.
Having studied kōdō (the Japanese art of incense appreciation) for several years, he was selected as an artist-in-residence at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto in 2023. His project explored the traces of time left in abandoned machiya townhouses in Kyoto—fading memories, elusive scents, and the challenge of representing the intangible. This research led to a deep investigation of visual representation techniques, unique graphic formats, and synesthetic experiments.
- WEB
- https://www.rimasuu.com/