My Little Orchestra Conductor Has Returned — This Time with One More Elephant! Always Reaching Higher!

Perched high on the trunk of her steadfast bearer, this little girl orchestrates a joyful pyramid of elephants like a conductor leading her symphony. Six elephants, united in perfect harmony, their gazes fixed on their tiny trainer, take great risks to bring this bold and tender composition to life — a sculpture that is both graphic in form and filled with warmth.

The work's impressive size allows it to find its place beautifully, whether in a garden or an interior space.

Its slate-grey patina enhances the texture of the "elephant skin," giving the piece both strength and character.

Sophie Verger is a fairy who knows how to transform an emotion into an animal, a sensation, a felling in a recollected memory. She also suggests to us with a lot of humor a lovable identification with the animal model and beyond this observation the fact that in all her work, the child alone has its place with her, spontaneously capable of including the existence of the animal in her own fundamental values.

Sophie Verger combines anthropomorphic beings with human characters, and she mixes the human and the animal world in surprising ways. Through these mutations, her universe becomes moving, unstable, something is falling apart and uncertainty is twisting in it like a rift.

Sophie Verger plays with the pure reason of the look and lies the opposition of her interpretation.

Beyond anthropomorphism there is also, often, the notion of games. With animal representations worthy of Pompon but going beyond a simple realistic look, Sophie Verger sculpts poems, whole tales in one piece...