The Strangest Thing An Artist Did For Fame
In this surreal video, Abraham Poincheval documents one of the most extreme performance-art experiments in recent memory: in 2017, he sealed himself inside a hollowed limestone rock for an entire week inside Palais de Tokyo. Completely hidden from view, Poincheval lived motionless within the stone during museum hours, turning his own body into a silent, invisible artwork—blurring the line between human presence, endurance, and the physical space of art itself.
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In 2017, artist Abraham Poincheval spent a week inside a limestone rock at the Palais de Tokyo, unseen by visitors but becoming part of the art
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