Thierry FONTAINE stages surreal, poetic encounters between sculpture and landscape. He creates situations—human figures, masks, objects—within outdoor settings, then photographs them with tight framing that suspends context. His method blends careful staging and natural light, inviting viewers to question perception, identity, and the unexpected harmonies between disparate elements.
In the humid stillness of a Réunion orchard, Thierry FONTAINE places one or two pearls on the broad leaves of taro, mango, vanilla or cacao — as if dressing them, gently, like bodies. Each surface becomes a skin, each pearl a bead of sweat, an earring, a breath. Sueur (2012-2022) evokes the quiet traces of labour, especially that of women in the plantations — the intimacy between hand and plant, adornment and care.
