During his solo performances, Abraham Poincheval (born in 1972, lives in Marseille) pushes back his physical and mental limits. For him, life in autarky, enclosure, immobility or the progressive loss of senses are all means to explore human nature. As with the giant bottle, inside which Abraham Poincheval is going up the river Rhône against its current, the exhibition will bring together several habitations in which, or on which, he has lived for several days.
For his solo show at Palais de Tokyo, Abraham Poincheval has conceived two new performances. While testing out the artist’s body, they will lead him to experience the temporalities of the animal and mineral worlds. This show comes after the presentation of his habitable sculpture Ours (‘‘Bear’’) as part of the group exhibition Inside in 2014, and his performance Vigie / Stylite (“Lookout / Stylite”) as part of the Nuit blanche 2016, under the artistic direction of Palais de Tokyo.
For his solo show at Palais de Tokyo, Abraham Poincheval has conceived two new performances. While testing out the artist’s body, they will lead him to experience the temporalities of the animal and mineral worlds. This show comes after the presentation of his habitable sculpture Ours (‘‘Bear’’) as part of the group exhibition Inside in 2014, and his performance Vigie / Stylite (“Lookout / Stylite”) as part of the Nuit blanche 2016, under the artistic direction of Palais de Tokyo.
