Biospheric City

Xavier Mary develops a powerful sculptural practice. Using industrial materials and discarded auto parts, he creates monumental installations in which mechanics become a poetic language. His work questions notions of transformation, cycles and survival, while revealing a form of sacrality born from the waste of our capitalist, overconsuming society.

Biospheric City fully embodies this approach. The artwork takes the form of a structure composed of truck gearboxes, immediately asserting a mechanical rigor that unfolds into a sculptural language. The metal, polished and reworked by the artist’s hand, retains the memory of industry and its specificities. Each bolt, each gear, inscribes within its frozen rotation a working-class story. Halfway between architecture and relic, the work conjures a hybrid city, both ruin and living organism, suggesting a possible rebirth after collapse.