STÉPHANE THIDET: DEHORS

Stéphane Thidet's universe, as enchanted as it is dark, offers up distorted visions of reality. His work suggests some other place, an inaccessible but perceptible fiction that confronts the viewer with a new 'state of affairs'.

His work often relates to childhood, or to popular collective amusements such as funfairs, games (billiards, seesaws), campsites or zoos. It reveals a peculiar loss of innocence and uneasiness that, by the state of permanent tension it supposes, generates a restlessness and a rich internal commotion.

The universe of Stéphane Thidet is like that of Alice in Wonderland. Things and situations escape their customary worldly use in favour of a hybrid reality that sets up the interplay of overlapping readings.

"Dehors", Stéphane Thidet's solo exhibition at Le Grand Café designates a projected space, a fictional territory, but with the paradox of proposing an 'outside' to which entrance is refused.

The exhibition includes 3 new works produced for the occasion as well as photographs and video.

IN CONVERSATION Stéphane Thidet and Emilie Renard, art critic and curator, Sunday 18 May at 15:00, free

Stephane Thidet
DEHORS
Kurator: Sophie Legrandjacques