artist/ Stéphane Thidet

France

After graduating from the École supérieure d’art et design Le Havre-Rouen in 1996, he continued his training at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, graduating with honors in 2002. Stéphane Thidet also studied at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague, and at the Cooper Union School in New York.

His multi-faceted work includes sculpture and installation. Stéphane Thidet creates worlds where shifts and side-steps take place. His works present a vision of reality imbued with fiction and poetry. They reveal a certain loss of innocence, a restlessness that, through the permanent state of tension they imply, provoke a fertile inner turmoil. Things and situations are withdrawn from the usual use of the world in favor of a hybrid reality, which sets up a game of crossed readings.