Samuel Barbier-Ficat (FR) is a multimedia artist and musician who knows the conceptual freedom of hybrid disciplines. His practice often intertwines relief, tension, and disruption. With the wrapped grand piano, he performs the role of a conductor interpreting the classical format as a spectacle. Confounding audience expectations and prescribed notions of performance, he confronts the inevitable twin pressures of personal fate and societal tradition, placing himself on the brink of disaster yet striding confidently and purposefully toward the unknown.