Juliette Mangenot is interested in the existential link with others and the world. She questions emotional dependence and the fear of abandonment. This fluctuating bond is embodied by characters whose bodily appearance takes the form of their interiority. Her forms, in tension, merge and separate, echoing the original bond with the mother, broken at birth. Her formal approach is in line with the concept of fragmentation of the body, instigated by Rodin in idealised figuration and extended by Arp in organic abstraction. Both artists express the reality of the human soul through the body.