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As part of the "One artist, one monument" programme initiated by the Centre des monuments nationaux, artist Fabrice Hyber is taking over the water mirror of the villa Cavrois in Bessines. The artist is presenting several works and a 500 m² vegetable garden will be created at the back of the park.

After installing his green men and women in the pool of the Domaine national du Palais Royal for the 30th anniversary of Homme de Bessines, Fabrice Hyber is exhibiting his creations at the villa Cavrois. 35 men and women from Bessines occupy the entire space of the water mirror. His POFs (Prototype d'Objets en Fonctionnement - Prototype of Functioning Objects) occupy all the rooms in the villa. At the same time, the artist has designed a 500m² vegetable garden on the uncultivated plot at the back of the park.

Fabrice Hyber has been active on the international art scene for over twenty years, working through a process of accumulation, proliferation and hybridisation, constantly shifting between the fields of drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and video, as well as business and commerce.

Born in Luçon in 1961, Fabrice Hyber trained as a scientist before entering the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Nantes. A quantum artist, he questions notions of hybridity through a multidisciplinary approach. Recognised as one of the most inventive contemporary artists of his generation, he was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2018.

Whether it's L'Hybermarché at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris in 1995 or Eau d'or, Eau dort, ODOR, which won him the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1997, his works constantly explore new dimensions.

His quest to divert his work led him to design the famous POFs, everyday objects that he playfully reinvents, all of which were exhibited for the first time in 2012 at the MAC/VAL.

Constantly exploring living things, Fabrice Hyber has adopted green as the emblem of his artistic research. His many installations, including L'Homme de Bessines in the gardens of the Palais Royal in 2022 and Ted Hyber in front of Osaka station in Japan, bear witness to his universal vision. His ideal forest takes shape in the Vendée valley of his childhood, where thousands of trees have been planted - an initiative for which he was appointed ambassador of the ONF-Agir pour la forêt fund. A creator of poetic metamorphoses, the artist resolutely cultivates the art of interaction and opens up a new field of possibilities.