Gilles Mihalcean employs a number of materials and ready-mades in the same sculpture. Many of his works entail several elements that he arranges along a trajectory, inviting the viewer to follow their path. In this sense Mihalcean constructs a visual narrative out of the capacity of material to stimulate our imagination. Moreover, the artist also writes and often accompanies his sculptures with poetry or prose. Curator Gilles Godmer likens Mihalcean's art to cinema: "As in cinema, there is a phenomenon of recognition or identification, in which spectators are suddenly confronted - through what is shown or suggested and what they have experienced or expected to experience - with a felt and recognizable emotion, one probably forgotten, long-buried, that is suddenly unearthed by a few kilos of plaster, glass and metal, dragging to the surface with a whole fact of their inner selves."