_translation of a French text from Camille de Singly
Simon Thiou shifts the uses of materials; it gives them another form of life, often cold
and almost clinical. Impeccable but fundamentally deviant, his cuts, shackles, growths, grafts,
destruction would almost liken him to a doctor Robert Ledgard1 of sculpture. However, if these
unnatural crossings induce dramatic developments that (de) generate forms, giving rise to «things
that exist right next to us, behind a transparent veil» the artist first creates fictions. In addition,
by questioning the history of objects as much as their forms and their material, by drawing
inspiration from science fiction cinema as well as sculpture, Simon Thiou invents complex and
referenced narratives, of which his sculptures are only the resurgences. exploded, the puzzle
pieces of a parallel world.
Camille de Singly
1. Heroes of Almodovar’s film La piel que habito («the skin I live in») (2011).