French Performance Artist Seals Himself Inside a Giant Stone for Eight Days
Abraham Poincheval is no stranger to daring performance art, but his latest project is probably the toughest one yet. The French artist will spend eight straight days sealed in a human shaped hole carved out inside a giant boulder. The purpose of this unusual performance – “to find out what the world is”. On February 22, 2017, […]
French Artist to Live inside Grizzly Bear Carcass for Thirteen Days
Abraham Poincheval, a performance artist from France, specializes in confining himself to the smallest possible spaces for long periods of time. A couple of years ago, he spent a whole week buried in a tiny underground hole in a bookstore, with just a pile of books for company. Now he has fashioned a new task […]
French Artist Buries Himself in a Tiny Hole for Seven Days, to Read
How far would you go to find some peace and quiet for a nice read? French artist Abraham Poincheval stayed buried for a whole week in a tiny underground hole in the underpinning of a Marseille bookstore, with books as the only company. On September 20, Abraham Poincheval began his unique performance, aptly entitled 604,800 seconds. […]