Benoît Piéron

Benoît Piéron draws his materials from hospitals and medical environments, and reappropriates them in order to open up new enchanting worlds, far removed from the romantic heroism typical of the usual metaphors of illness. His vocabulary is based on his experiences of time (slowed down, distended) and space (shrunken, but also expanded) during illness and the many hospital stays he has endured since childhood. Benoît Piéron’s installations account for his stand still journeys, the sensation of the body “in landscape format” and the feeling of living “off-screen”. The reveries that emerge from these memories are as many ways of protesting against validist and productivist norms.