Gabrielle Chardigny is a French artist and sculptor based in Berlin, where she works at SüdKreuzAteliers. She graduated from the École Supérieure d’Art et Design de Saint-Étienne (ESADSE) in 2021.

Working primarily through site-specific installations, she combines natural and industrial materials to create constructed environments that engage with processes of transformation and adaptation. Her work often incorporates living elements and responds to the spatial and climatic conditions of each site.

Her work has been exhibited in Portugal, France, and Germany, and she has participated in residencies, including Montemero Residency in Andalusia.

“My work explores the extraction, displacement, and circulation of raw materials and living matter, such as plants, salt, or minerals. My focus is on the consequences of these movements and questions how living matter circulates within human infrastructures.

I imagine environments and systems inspired by human infrastructures that regulate, move, and transform matter, while taking an inverted purpose. Rather than exploiting or controlling, these structures are designed to support and protect displaced elements, such as plants cultivated outside their natural climate.

The projects also integrate natural processes, such as condensation or evaporation, which contribute to materializing the conditions necessary for life within these environments. The work makes visible the tension between extraction, displacement, and infrastructures, revealing the logics and constraints imposed by human systems.”