Le Refuge by Stéphane Thidet (born in 1974, lives and works in Paris) is a wooden cabin, equipped with a few pieces of furniture, similar to those in which mountaineers and hikers might spend the night in the mountains. Yet who would dream of entering this cabin as it’s raining inside? Watching the rainfall through the window doesn’t produce a feeling of pleasure or security. Rather, the viewer is faced here with a reversal of outside and inside, of a refuge turned into a hostile place. The refuge is therefore to be found outside, perhaps within us. Stéphane Thidet manipulates objects and forms, proposing situations through his work. He subverts and disturbs what is familiar, forcing each of us to look at and interrogate reality. The artist knowingly turns our daily experiences and knowledge on their heads in order to interact with our imaginations.