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Poincheval is to live entombed in a body-shaped slot carved
out from a limestone boulder from Feb 22. to March 1, at Paris'
Palais de Tokyo contemporary art museum.
He will eat stewed fruit, soups and purees stashed in cubby
holes inside the stone block, which is also equipped with an air
vent and items such as a log book.
The artist, who has made a name for himself living in enclosed
spaces, told journalists that the best way to understand objects
was not from a distance but by entering them.
"I say to myself, hold on, what is this object really? And you
ask yourself the question and say to yourself: 'Well, hold on,
instead of distancing yourself and removing oneself from it,
let's go inside and see what is really happening,'" Poincheval
told reporters.
The performance left museum-goers intrigued.
"It is rather extraordinary. We are asking ourselves: what he
will do for a week? How he will live? We arrived just as he went
in this work of art, and I hope we will be able to follow, on
the Internet at least, how it will evolve," Maylis Boxberger, a
Paris resident visiting the museum with her son Charles, told
Reuters TV.
In 2014, Poincheval spent 13 days living inside a hollowed-out
bear sculpture, eating worms and beetles to follow a bear's
diet.
(Reporting by Nathalie Kantaris Diaz, Editing by Leigh Thomas)
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