French artist Abraham Poincheval will live inside a boulder for a week to ‘see what is really happening’

French artist Abraham Poincheval has in recent years been known for living inside a bear sculpture for 13 days. In a new performance art, the artist is doing it again, locking himself up in a stone block in which he will stay for a planned seven days. Poincheval entered the stone on Feb. 22 and will come out on March 1.

Living inside an object is a way of understanding the nature of that object, the artist told journalists before embarking on his endeavor, taking place at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo contemporary art museum. For him, it is in fact the superior way of comprehending.

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“I say to myself, hold on, what is this object really? And you ask yourself the question and say to yourself: ‘Well, hold on, instead of distancing yourself and removing oneself from it, let’s go inside and see what is really happening,’” Poincheval said.

While inside the boulder, whose space within is patterned after the position of a seated person, Poincheval will subsist on stewed fruit, soups and purees.

When the artist lived in the bear sculpture, in 2014, he pursued a bear’s diet, eating only worms and beetles.


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Source: designfaves.com

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