Happy Few Gold

Among their latest creations, Happy Few appears as a monumental staircase, tracing a path toward the sky. La Fratrie lifts us several meters above the ground, up to a half-open door — a promise of happiness and of a better world in which to let ourselves drift.

The sculpture unfurls like a long ribbon of steel defying the laws of gravity. The dialogue between the soft curve of its back and the angularity of its steps heightens the sensation of imbalance and upward movement. These steps, each different, asymmetrical and unpredictable, become the metaphor of every individual’s unique journey through existence. The half-open door to elsewhere emerges as an invitation to lose oneself in the clouds.

La Fratrie

An artistic duo of sculptors composed of two brothers:
Karim Berchiche, born in 1978 in Le Quesnoy (Nord), & Luc Berchiche, born in 1981 in Le Quesnoy (Nord)
Currently living and working in Paris

Since childhood, they have created together, “with four hands,” which inspired their artist name. Their works are sculptures of extraordinary precision and evocative power, questioning humankind’s relationship with the environment.

Suspended miniature islands or painstaking constructions, through their formal and technical refinement, their sculptures — made of diverse materials — grant their creators the dimension of artisans of a utopian world, in the true sense of the term (“the place that is nowhere”).

These aerial rocks are worlds unto themselves, illusions uprooted from their original space. Singular and complex fictions, they stage narrative scenes that are often allegorical, while also offering profound reflections on the brevity and fragility of life.