Presenting Benoît Piéron, an artist who transforms the metaphor of illness into a poetic language of intimacy, fragility, and resistance. His practice illuminates the subculture of hospitals—those hidden ecosystems of waiting rooms, rituals, and care—by re-enchanting them through the lens of childlike animism.

In Piéron’s work, bedsheets, medical devices, and hospital furniture are no longer inert tools of treatment but characters imbued with presence, humor, and tenderness. Through this childlike animism, objects once tied to clinical necessity acquire voices of their own, softening the harshness of medical environments and opening them to play, imagination, and metamorphosis.

Illness, for Piéron, is not only a personal condition but also a metaphor for how we inhabit time and relation. His installations carve out spaces where sickness and vitality blur, where fragility becomes fertile, and where the sterile language of care is rewritten in tones of intimacy and wonder. By exposing the hospital as both institution and subculture, Piéron reveals how even in its most controlled spaces, gentleness, creativity, and resistance continue to thrive.