Abraham Poincheval

born in 1972 in Alençon, France
lives and works in Marseille, France


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Abraham Poincheval, La Vigie urbaine (Urban Look-Out), La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2016

production: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes

photo: Benoît Mauras

courtesy the artist and semiose, Paris

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Abraham Poincheval, La Vigie urbaine (Urban Look-Out), La Criée centre for contemporary art,  2016

photo: Benoît Mauras

courtesy the artist and semiose, Paris

Abraham Poincheval, La Vigie urbaine

Abraham Poincheval, La Vigie urbaine (Urban Look-Out), La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2016

production: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes

photo: Benoît Mauras

courtesy the artist and semiose, Paris

Abraham Poincheval, La Vigie urbaine

Abraham Poincheval, La Vigie urbaine (Urban Look-Out), La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2016

production: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes

photo: Benoît Mauras

courtesy the artist and semiose, Paris

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Abraham Poincheval, La Vigie urbaine (Urban Look-Out), La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2016

production: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes

photo: C. Le Devéhat, Rennes Ville et Métropole

courtesy the artist and semiose, Paris

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Abraham Poincheval, La Vigie urbaine (Urban Look-Out), La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2016

production: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes

photo: Benoît Mauras

courtesy the artist and semiose, Paris

La Virgie urbaine, 2016

performance, seven days

Like a stylite or of a lookout, Abraham Poincheval spends one week in autarky on a platform in the size of his body, at the top of a mast.


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Exhibition

The Rhetoric of Tides – Vol. 1

Virginie Barré, Julien Bismuth, Michel Blazy, Florence Doléac, Ellie Ga, Dominique Ghesquière, Jacques Julien, Martin Le Chevallier, Natalia Lopez, Dominique Mahut, Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet, Bruno Peinado, Steven Pennaneac’h, Abraham Poincheval, Hugues Reip, Pascal Rivet, Benjamin Rivière, Éric Thomas, Gurvan Tymen and Jean-Luc Verna

from 5 July to 30 September 2015


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Abraham Poincheval, Étude pour marcher sur la canopée nuageuse, 2012 – 2015, exhibition view L’Épais réelLa Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2015

production: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes

photo: Benoît Mauras

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Abraham Poincheval, Étude pour marcher sur la canopée nuageuse, 2012 – 2015, exhibition view L’Épais réelLa Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2015

production: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes

photo: Benoît Mauras

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Abraham Poincheval, Étude pour marcher sur la canopée nuageuse, 2012 – 2015, exhibition view L’Épais réelLa Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2015

production: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes

photo: Benoît Mauras

Étude pour marcher sur la canopée nuageuse, 2012-2015

drawing with chalk on wood, model, 400 x 650 cm


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Exhibition

L’Épais Réel

Bas Jan Ader, Dominique Blais, Katinka Bock, Simon Faithfull, Nicolas Floc’h, Ellie Ga, Giovanni Giaretta / Renato Leotta, Július Koller, Helen Mirra, Abraham Poincheval, Thomas Salvador, Jessica Warboys and Guido van der Werve

from 11 December 2015 to 21 February 2016

Abraham Poincheval, La Vigie

Green Flash

La Vigie urbaine

Abraham Poincheval

from 14 to 21 February 2016

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Season

Fendre les Flots

Ariane Michel

from September 2015 to August 2016

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Tas de Cailloux

Fendre les Flots

Ariane Michel

2017