Thierry Farcy
Visual artist in Normandy

Whether through installations, sculpture, painting, drawing, video, or photography (including photographs of ice sculptures), Thierry Farcy’s contemporary work is often bound to representations of the human being. His cement heads are depersonalised, anonymised—this is the raw material of his practice as a sculptor. His performances are meant to unsettle and to question, sometimes revealing skulls that are fragmented, decapitated, fossilised. From bronze sculpture to cinder-block walls, Thierry Farcy works and carves a range of materials, as if kneading the wounded human bodies he has so often encountered.

Through drawing, he also explores the biological microcosm of our organism and its relationship with the world around it—through observation, but also through imagination, which allows him to dream of a different kind of biology.

His work invites reflection on the transformations and advances in medicine and genetics, and on modern sciences—capable of wonders, yet also taking risks with the future of the living. An essential line of questioning, carried by a sincere artistic sensibility.

Thierry Farcy’s works have been shown in numerous exhibitions in different cities: at Galerie Hélène Lamarque in Paris and Miami; at Nuit Blanche 2007 in Paris; at the Musée Saint-Raymond during the Synthetic Gardens festival in Toulouse; in Normandy within the De Visu network (DRAC Normandy); at the IGDA art gallery in Caen; in the city of Falaise (at Château de la Fresnaye, and in the park of William the Conqueror’s Castle); during the European Heritage Days; and in Alençon at the Museum of Fine Arts and Lace.