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

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 (Urban Look-Out), La Criée centre for contemporary art, 2016
photo: Benoît Mauras
courtesy the artist and semiose, Paris

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 (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 (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

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
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.

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

Abraham Poincheval, Étude pour marcher sur la canopée nuageuse, 2012 – 2015, exhibition view L’Épais réel, La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2015
production: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes
photo: Benoît Mauras

Abraham Poincheval, Étude pour marcher sur la canopée nuageuse, 2012 – 2015, exhibition view L’Épais réel, La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2015
production: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes
photo: Benoît Mauras

Abraham Poincheval, Étude pour marcher sur la canopée nuageuse, 2012 – 2015, exhibition view L’Épais réel, La 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
Resources

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