french artist thierry mandon reads in a bed dangling from abandoned building

the artist slices objects and glues them to facades

french artist thierry mandon expresses himself using video, photography, performance, and installations. he likes to express the poetic character of everyday life by making subtle transformations, where the viewer finds both tragic and comic aspects of his existence.

in his piece titled ‘inside-outside’ the artist is casually reading a book in a bed suspended above the ground. in another other work titled ‘tableau vivant’ or ‘living painting’ he sips a glass of wine at a split dining table also hovering above the ground. thierry literally slices and sticks domestic objects to abandoned buildings’ façades. the multidisciplinary artist is always the subject of his sarcastic works where he unveils a series of solitary daily activities that, once outside of the usual setting, become more of a performance rather than an ordinary moment.

all images courtesy of thierry mandon

banal situations turned into art performances

‘firstly, I must point out that this video is at the base of an artistic performance. like many of my videos, a character, a kind of archetype of the individual, is staged in a banal situation of everyday life. by transposing this common scene into an incompatible space-time, it turns into an absurd and poetic parody. the character is faced with its human condition, with the tragicomical aspect of its existence, with its limits but also with its creative strength.’ as told by thierry to dionisopunk.

project info:

name: inside outside – tableau vivant 

artist: thierry mandon

location: chambery, france