Born in Nantes in 1960, Pierrick Sorin is a visual artist and video director. He makes short films and visual installations in which he pokes fun at human existence and artistic creation in a burlesque way. An avid self-filmer, he is often the sole actor in the stories he invents. But the artist is also a child of Méliès: in particular, he creates small ‘optical theatres’, a mixture of ingenious DIY and new technologies, which allow him to appear as if by magic, in space, in the form of a small hologram and among real objects. His work has been shown at major contemporary art venues such as the Fondation Cartier, the MNAM, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Tate Gallery in London, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo.

An advocate of an artistic attitude which, while contemporary and intellectual, remains accessible to a wide audience, Pierrick Sorin has also created audiovisual devices applied to event communication. He has worked with Jean-Paul Goude for Chanel, for example, and has already produced several works for some of the highlights of Galeries Lafayette Haussmann. The artist has also produced TV reports and music videos. He has acted in 2 feature films and produced videos for the set design of singer Anaïs' 2009 concerts. More recently, Pierrick Sorin has devoted himself to directing, notably for the operas La Pietra del Paragone by Rossini and La Pastorale by Gérard Pesson, presented at the Théâtre du Châtelet in 2007 and 2009 respectively, for The Magic Flute by Mozart, scheduled to be performed at La Scala in Milan in 2011, and for L'Enfant et les sortilèges by Ravel, also scheduled to be performed at the Taiwan National Opera in 2011.