Michel Tallichet's sculptural pieces challenge the psychological barriers inflicted by architecture, redefining real space and creating metaphysical space beyond imposed borders. Tallichet activates space by rearranging objects without consideration of pre-existing boundaries, frequently penetrating walls or bypassing the intended function of the architectural elements that make up a space. Ladder, a ladder placed over and through a wall, and Fling, a steel utility stool suspended mid flight through a wall, refuse to accept the intended use of the spaces in which they are installed. Instead, Tallichet insists on the ability of the individual to create their own space in keeping with their psychological and geographical needs. Tallichet highlights the anarchistic flavor of his work by taking most of the elements of his works from their site, in a sense cannibalizing the structure, and by installing quickly and in unexpected locations. Shims, a newer work consisting of pine shims wedged into a floor to ceiling cut in the wall of the Midendorf gallery at the Maryland Institute College of Art, allows the viewer to see beyond the architectural structure, suggesting an imagined space past or between the bounds of the walls.

Tallichet's two-dimensional work consists of photography and video. Taking advantage of word play and compounding meanings, Tallichet questions the phrases that we take for granted. In Head Over Heels Tallichet presents a simple figure standing upright. The work questions the meaning of head over heels, a phrase typically used to describe manic behavior. In his series Feet Tall, Tallichet creates three layers of meaning with one line of text- the physical position of the text on the wall, the text as title, and the text as description The descriptive nature of this work seeks to underscore the inability of physicality, text, and description to describe action in much the same way that Ladder, Fling, and Shim underscore the inability of boundary to describe space.