artist/ Drucker

France

Théo Drucker was born from a Parisian union between a Franco-Colombian mother and a Franco-Israeli father. At the age of seven, he was diagnosed with Burkitt’s lymphoma, a malignant tumor that, thanks to chemotherapy and unwavering family support, led to remission. This period of hospitalization allowed him to delve more intensely into drawing, painting, and sculpture.

Théo’s work revolves around humanity and the upheavals it brings to the world around it.

He envisions and exhibits the genetic mutation of polyps—new organisms of unsettling strangeness that adapt, and therefore, become. By merging the human hand with the very species it alone can still save, the sculptor brings forth mutant creatures—a symbolic prelude to the ambivalence of our perpetual quest for an artificial paradise.

By breaking the distinction between Homo sapiens and the living world, these creatures emerge as heralds of a new era. According to Darwin, we left the oceans to conquer the Earth. Théo’s unique, spontaneously crafted sculptures reveal the intuitive and organic creative process. Their sinuous and airy lines convey a sense of movement, demonstrating how the artistic gesture can free matter from its inertia, granting it identity, emotion, and history.