MAXIME VERDIER The Predator , 2021 Coloured pencils on paper 32 x 24 cm Courtesy of Galerie Anne-Sarah Benichou ATELIER #22 MAXIME VERDIER Maxime Verdier was born in Dieppe in 1991. He sees everyday life as a "portal to the supernatural", a "place where the impossible becomes possible", terms that could just as well describe his artistic practice. By drawing on a reservoir of fantastic stories, anecdotes and memories, he seeks to reveal the strange and repressed images of our unconscious. Through painting, drawing, sculpture or installation, he creates a chimerical and poetic world populated by dreamlike creatures, banal objects that come to life and nightmarish monsters.