After an initial training artistic, it is in 1995 that Mimi (Michelle Peyre) created its first sculpture. Since it is a people of small round women, jiggling, voluptuous, friendly which is not under his hands of artist.
"My Mimis are not objects. They are a presence in the house. "My Mimi feels good on the chimney", said one. "I tell her hi every morning" says another. This presence that they emit is the engine of my creation. They flourish between my hands, carnal, fleshy, serene and happy, in the simple attitudes and moving of real life. As they emerge from the clay, my "Mimi" quickly take their independence, become themselves to enter into a relationship with you.
For me, as the said Giacometti, "adventure is seeing appear something unknown each day. "
I wish that for you my "Mimi" are, according to the expression of Rodin, "the smile of the human soul on the house and the furniture"."
- Michelle Peyre
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