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.<\/p>\n
Biospheric City<\/em> 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5058,"template":"","exposition":[53],"class_list":["post-5119","vitrine","type-vitrine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","exposition-en18"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artaucentre.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vitrine\/5119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artaucentre.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vitrine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artaucentre.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/vitrine"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artaucentre.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artaucentre.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"exposition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artaucentre.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposition?post=5119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}