Catherine PERBOST was born at the gates of the desert, in Niamey, Niger, on March 8, 1959. From the day she was born, art was for her a family story: family of musicians, authors, composers-performers. Breaking with her schooling, music and singing were of course her first paths. As in studio with WEA music, she must interrupt her recordings. It then darkens, and for four long years, she falls in an unfathomable depression. After a post-psychiatric cure, endowed with a nature of an unusual energy, it is through sculpture that she first let hers…