Daniel Firman
Born in 1966 in Bron, France
The body and its relationship to space is at the heart of Daniel Firman’s research. Through a multidisciplinary practice combining dance, performance, sculpture, and photography, he explores the notions of movement, balance, gravity, and time. His works capture and translate the suspended movements of the bodies they represent in an attempt to capture a temporary and precarious point of balance. They create presence and are proposed as tools “used to question the structures of the living.”
Born in 1966 in Bron, Daniel Firman was trained at the École des Beaux-arts de Saint-Étienne, then at the École des Beaux-arts d’Angoulême. His work has been exhibited at the National Gallery of Australia (2017), the Venice Biennale (2009), and the Palais de Tokyo (2008). He lives and works between New York and Bordeaux.
