Exposition Espèces en voie d'apparition : Danaël Valbert

In this open-air exhibition at the Station Mue (Confluence), Danaël Valbert presents animal sculptures made from recycled materials. Cans, bottles, cigarette butts, or even garbage bags: so many objects thrown away in everyday life that the artist reuses to form these hybrid beings, both familiar and unknown. This approach, both aesthetic and political, is a way of creating beauty from materials considered obsolete, thus contributing to changing our view on recycling. These half-organic, half-industrial beings confront us with our own use of waste and the mechanization of nature. With his astonishing, sensitive, and touching imaginary sculptures, the artist inventor places his work under the sign of ecology: he initiates a poetic reflection on the destruction of species threatened by the action of the human, in particular under the impact of pollution. By giving form to these mutant species in "way of appearance", he puts in light the fragility of our planet and the living.