Chantal Pollier
Chantal Pollier_ had a scientific and artistic training at once. Psychology and sculpture.
Ephemerality, balancing the line between being and not being, is one of the main themes in all her work. The subject: death and life, decay and beauty, the physical appearance of the gradually disappearing. Showing the fragile, vulnerable body in his temporary presence, she turnes to scientists and their research. The fragile beauty is often associated with horror, even with disgust. Not only for the created work, but also for the violation of the integrity of the living being, for it is often necessary to be destructive by the method of research. This duality that Chantal Pollier experiences at any dissection or other research experience is at the same time considered being just part of the job. It would be an illusion to think that the final artwork remains untouched by it. And It is noticed that there, artists and scientists dance on the same tightrope.
Ephemerality, balancing the line between being and not being, is one of the main themes in all her work. The subject: death and life, decay and beauty, the physical appearance of the gradually disappearing. Showing the fragile, vulnerable body in his temporary presence, she turnes to scientists and their research. The fragile beauty is often associated with horror, even with disgust. Not only for the created work, but also for the violation of the integrity of the living being, for it is often necessary to be destructive by the method of research. This duality that Chantal Pollier experiences at any dissection or other research experience is at the same time considered being just part of the job. It would be an illusion to think that the final artwork remains untouched by it. And It is noticed that there, artists and scientists dance on the same tightrope.