Already recognized in 2016 and having achieved great success last March at “Art Paris” the Art Fair in the Grand Palais (Paris), the French artist Émeric Chantier con- tinues to design sculptures that are both organic and mechanical: “I vegetate objects, parts of the Body from sculptures that I create and treat with miniature plants“, sum- marizes the artist.
By turning around the sculptures of the artist, each one visualizes, like a giant, different miniaturized worlds. By contemplating them as a whole element, the public is pushed to look at each of them in a microscopic way. Humans then lose their benchmarks and are led to examine, in a more careful and more minute manner, the environment in which they live.
Three animals reveal their behavior. Blocked in a space at their size, some will be able to see the allegory of the encyclopedic label, this box given by Man without completely understanding what he observes. Others may see the force of Nature escaping from the domestication of man.
By adopting this multiplicity of view, our intimacy invites us to become aware, to imagine and to react. Without being the militant illustration of a politico-ecological act, the universe of Emeric Chantier brings each one of us to question: how does Man position himself in relation to Nature? A discussion between Nature and all the elements diverted from the hand of Man.
