Benoît Piéron
Artist
Benoît Piéron is an artist who spent a large part of his childhood in the hospital, a place he has to frequent again today. At the age of forty, he has transformed a tamed illness into a potential for action. Resident artist at the Pinault Collection in Lens, the Fondation Hermès, and the Casa de Velázquez, he has exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo and the Chisenhale Gallery in London, and he has been nominated for the Ricard prize. In his sculptures, patchworks, and installations, which often borrow their pastel colors from hospital linen, he has developed a body of work in which the medical world is transformed into an intimate reverie, a reflection on waiting, the garden, and sensuality—a hallucinatory and uncertain inner journey.
- Anaël Pigeat