"If, while crossing a wood or a vacant lot, you take the time to stop, bend down, and look at nature closely, you will notice that nothing around us is in perfect condition. Blades of grass are scorched by the sun or eaten by insects. Insects carry parasites or are sick. Branches are broken, bushes are yellowing from a lack or excess of water. Everything, absolutely everything that lives is broken, worn, sick, or altered. Nothing is intact, nothing is perfect. It is from this apparent chaos that a world in perpetual evolution is born, a shuffling of organisms in search of an unattainable equilibrium. It is from this imbalance that movement is born."
Having worked for a long time in market farming, Lemire has observed nature closely, kneeling in the fields to weed or follow the development cycle of insects. This angle of observation of the world has marked his artistic practice. His installation work thus tends to stage this chaos and imbalance through creaking, dysfunctional, or worn works.
Through approximation and anti-performance, his practice also intends to be a response to the current race for aesthetic experience, where the viewer is exposed to a gargantuan volume of cultural productions. Lemire explores the fragility of human experience, both individual and collective, through the fragility of matter and through the antithesis of high technology. This is why the "cobbled-together," analog, and handcrafted object seems to him more relevant than ever.
