The inhabitable sculpture by Abraham Poincheval (born in 1972, lives and works in Marseille) was created in collaboration with the Gassendi Museum (Dign-les-Bains) so that the artist could live in it autonomously, cut off from the outside world. During the thirteen days of his performance at the musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Paris), like Jonas in the whale’s stomach, the artist lived inside this life-sized bear sculpture, became one with the bear’s body and fed like a bear. This experience of extreme solitude and retreat from the world was filmed and transmitted via video. Abraham Poincheval explores the world by pushing back his physical and mental limits. The artist develops many approaches such as confinement, the absence of communication and living in self-sufficiency, spending for example a week in a hole dug into the floor of a gallery and covered by a one-ton stone (Galerie HO, Marseille, 2012). In 2013, he returned again to underground isolation and analyzed the total loss of visual and temporal markers when he spent five days with students in a pitch-black cave.