Since 2018, La Scala has been inviting artists, put forward by Aline Vidal, to conceive an “artist’s chair” that is subsequently exhibited in the lobby of the Parisian theater. Abraham Poincheval’s project Étude pour traverser un continent liquide: L’Atlantique (A Study for Crossing a Liquid Continent: The Atlantic) follows on from creations by Annette Messager, Stéphane Thidet, Fabrice Hyber, Hervé Di Rosa, Pierre Ardouvin, Elika Hedayat, Bianca Bondi and Laure Provost.

“With this project, my aim is to engage you in an oceanic, fluid experiment. Our usual connection with the world is built on our relationship with solid objects. Our archaeology, our history is based on hard forms (monuments, fossils…), our relationship with space, with the landscape, is based on what has been constructed, even our thought itself is elaborated on dry land. It is easy enough to experience this when articulating the same project on terra firma or on water, where once embarked on this moving landscape, our narrative begins to struggle, trying desperately to hang on to any idea that looks like an island. The project I am proposing is an expedition into liquid thought, a dive into oceanic anthropology, into marine theater.”
A. Poincheval