St\u00e9phane Tidet was born in 1974 ; he works and lives in Paris. Childhood and entertainment are his main inspirations. By altering simple objects with a little bit of inventiveness or absurdity, he creates a hybrid reality, where melancholy and disillusionment often overtake innocence and the notion of play. Both a source of wonder and a dark vision of reality, St\u00e9phane Tidet\u2019s universe triggers off a permanent state of tension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Part of Le Printemps de Septembre festival in Toulouse (2007), Le refuge is a piece wrapped up with absurdity: a wood shed, supposed to protect from the weather\u2019s mood, where rain is coming down in buckets !<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A scale 1 model, basically equipped, the shed\u2019s door wide-open. The rain prevents anybody from going in. Outside, everything is dry\u2026 An incongruous situation, spectacular and poetic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Situated in the great hall of the H\u00f4tel de R\u00e9gion, the architecture of the building met the sobriety of the shed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n