Serge Nemlin describes his encounter with wood as having enabled him to become a "free artist". Free from academic and formal constraints, free to exploit the infinite possibilities of wood, in tune with the living nature of this material. In 2017, he focused on the practice of assemblage, particularly with wood chips. Piece by piece, Serge Nemlin seeks to achieve balance, to divine the intentions of the wood, to sculpt first with the eyes, through the imagination, like a 3D puzzle. Serge Nemlin's work is inhabited by the question of the relationship between man and nature, fauna and flora, the survival of one depending on that of the other. His assemblage technique appears to us as a mimicry of this vision of life, made up of assembled fragments that gradually draw a story. That of our individual lives and that of the communities of which we are part.