Wild
Wood, metal, wood filler
4m high x 6m, 2025
Permanent exhibition at Parc Bouchet, Fareins (France)
Assisted by Agathe Lepoutre and Laurent Espiasse
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his 4-meter-tall tree with extraordinary shapes illustrates the incredible diversity of nature, where trunks sometimes take on improbable forms—shapes that surprise as much as they provoke reflection. The trunks and branches, intertwined in an organic way, weave together like roots, veins, or arteries knotted into one another. The tree is the heart of the forest, both a hearth and a witness to a living dialogue. Like many plant and animal species, trees communicate and support one another. Through their root systems, trees of the same species exchange information within a forest—but not only them. Trees of the same kind rely on a collective strategy to interact and survive.
Just like birds make easily recognizable calls when a predator approaches, trees warn each other too. They’re simply slower—but the message travels, from branches to roots, through the trunk, and from one tree’s roots to another’s in the network. This alarm signal, functioning like an electrical impulse, spreads at a rate of about one centimeter per minute. Trees are the pillars of an ecosystem they constantly strive to protect.
Created from naturally curved deadwood collected in the forest, the making of Wild follows an environmentally respectful approach, aiming for sustainable coexistence between humans and nature.
It is this deep interconnection within the natural world that I seek to express —a wild harmony, a symbol of a living, breathing nature that functions like a complex and interdependent organ.
