Stéphane Thidet is a French visual artist. He lives and works in Paris. His installations and sculptures transform water, wood, light, and everyday objects into evocative and paradoxical situations. Through displacement, action, and fiction, his work blurs the boundaries of reality and reveals the poetic—and at times unsettling—power of the spaces he inhabits.
Two dead trees, carefully salvaged, are suspended to restore their lightness and movement. In a hypnotic dance, they slowly brush against a surface of sand, tracing an infinite furrow.
International Partner ｜CENTQUATRE-PARIS
Guest Curator｜Valérie Senghor
Soleils is a first-person video in which a burning branch, held by the artist, slowly moves through a meadow, burning the dandelions in its path. This systematic gesture crystallizes a paradox: fire creates a fleeting glow while extinguishing the flower. The flame thus disturbs the tranquility of the landscape, poised between revelation and destruction.
Souffle is a black-and-white video in which the artist attempts, in a gesture both absurd and demiurgic, to become the wind. His breath, synchronized with the grasses, reeds, branches, and swing stirred by the air, becomes the soundtrack to a contemplative landscape where the body seeks to merge with the forces passing through it.
