With Three-Body Tension: Telluric, Inert, Cosmic, Émeric Chantier continues his exploration of the complex and intimate relationship that unites human beings with their environment. Since his earliest series, the artist has developed a sculpture situated at the boundary between the living and the manufactured, bringing natural materials, industrial elements and organic forms into dialogue to question our place within the natural world.
This new series brings together three dimensions: the telluric, the inert and the cosmic, which meet, confront and respond to one another.
The telluric refers to the earth, to the original forces of living things. Organic and bodily forms seem to emerge from this raw material, like fragments of an ancient memory, recalling the common origin of all life.
Facing them, the manufactured inert embodies the human will to shape, organise and control its environment. As in his previous works, the artist sets the natural and the artificial side by side without seeking to oppose them in a manichaean way, but rather to reveal the relationships and tensions that unite them.