Wild Boar
We walk, they see us, invisible presences to our senses as city dwellers. Just maybe we hear a crackling sound, or we see their traces where they have turned and rooted through the earth on the edges of the forest paths. However, I remember four adorable young boars that I saw as they played, carefree, around the Neuville pond. Armed members of the Neuville hunting society blocked the access road in order to shoot them. I didn’t understand why they would do this but the hunters said "they are the result of a mating between a wild sow and a domestic pig, we don’t know who released them or discovered them and they are potentially dangerous for walkers".

When I got home I heard 3 gunshots, one of the young boars must have escaped

My founder, on finishing the patina of the sculpture, said teasingly that it evoked the flavor of their meat. I made my little tribute to these four innocents. A mother is a mother.

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...