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In "Endangerment", the artist creates life-size animal sculptures to make the audience aware of the reality of these individuals' existence through their encounter. In meeting them, the creatures lose their abstract nature due to geographic remoteness, they leave the realm of the unknown and of imagination, and the issues they face become all the more real to the viewer.
Represented in the form of white polyurethane figures, on which origami rest like butterflies symbolizing fragility, the animals seem frozen in time in a symmetric posture reminiscent of Ancient Egyptian art. Similar to a last glimmer of hope, evocative of the literary movement of magic realism, the origami hold on to the last strengths of their animal through color, the ultimate spark of life, which comes in stark contrast with the monochromatic nature of the still sculptures.
The relationship between the audience and the creatures is rekindled, in their finding of a mutual respect and in the acknowledgement of their commonalities. The aim is to reach such a level of concern, as for people to want to agree to look for compromises towards peaceful ways to coexist.
The causes of the extinction of animal species are multifaceted and encompass climate change, over-hunting, poaching, ocean waste, animal cruelty, over-consumption, greed and many more. Each sculpture stands for one of these threats.
All sculptures are editions of seven.