Born in 1973, Alben lives and works in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. A self-taught artist, he began collecting everyday objects at a young age, fascinated by the emotional and symbolic weight hidden within seemingly insignificant things. His artistic journey started with graffiti, where he explored stencil, silkscreen, and stamp techniques before translating that urban energy into the three-dimensional world of sculpture.

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For over a decade, Alben has developed his own language through resin sculptures. Influenced by the Nouveaux Réalistes movement, particularly artists such as Arman and César, his work centers on encapsulating ordinary objects within molds of classical figures, giving them new visual and emotional meaning. Each piece becomes a time capsule where memory, consumption, and nostalgia coexist.

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Despite his independence as a creator, Alben’s work engages with multiple artistic movements, from the Renaissance to Pop Art and Street Art. In his sculptures, viewers encounter echoes of the sacred and the mundane, the historical and the contemporary, the intimate and the collective.

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For Alben, art is a way of translating the immediacy of modern life, an attempt to capture the ephemeral and elevate it to the status of an icon. His pieces, filled with toys, utensils, candies, or tools, invite reflection on the objects that surround us and the emotional value we attach to them.

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Alben’s work is part of public and private collections around the world, including Paris, Dubai, Hong Kong, London, Zurich, New York, Mexico, and Chicago.