Amentia Siard Brochard works across multiple mediums, from sculpture to through video and photography, conceiving pieces in which fluidity emerges between humans and non-humans, objects and landscapes. She seeks to recreate sensitive contexts where times and spaces are perceived as non-linear, as a living matter that makes coexistence possible.
Her research focuses on what she calls “extra bodies”, a notion borrowed from cinema that refers to what appears in the background — never fully identified, always in a liminal state. For her, it has become a way to transgress anonymity and explore new forms of reciprocity.
In sculpture, each element — turned wood, bent copper, burnt brass — carries an incomplete narrative and condenses a set of sensations (the smell of extinguished fire, the softness of oak, the crash of wind). Similarly, her videos evoke perceptual experiences where bodies become entangled within artificial temporalities, reconciling past and future, presence and disappearance.
The distance Amentia maintains in her creative process from objects, landscapes, and living beings — all bodies in a broader sense — allows intentionalities beyond her own to emerge: off-centered meeting points. Her desire to perceive sentience in everything (whether metallic, wooden, organic, petrochemical, or chimerical), a capacity for subjective experience, makes her an accomplice of Val Plumwood’s philosophical animism.
