Viriya Chotpanyavisut's work is motivated by a desire to be "out there" - in contact with other species - and by the desire to engage in a dialogue with them through images. He orchestrates his images around the question of the relationship between living beings. The artist questions the possibility of the common, of the instantaneous, and tries to create links in the disparity of his photographs. His artistic practice is based on his ability to contemplate the little things of everyday life and capture them in photographs. He tries to transform the appearance of these obsolete objects by giving them a certain intimacy, a certain life.
Soudain éclaircie is a series of ephemeral environments that show everyday objects as poetic interstices. Viriya Chotpanyavisut films and photographs the natural world in its most diverse contexts: city parks, remote areas and everyday places and situations. He is attentive to nature in the urban environment, to its rhythms and to the emotional bond we forge with flowers and plants, living beings and objects in the city.
He compiles his discoveries into a vast archive of images ranging from simple everyday views to compositions tending more towards abstraction. His experiments with the materiality of the photographic image blend harmoniously with his choice of the natural world as his subject. His black-and-white, darkroom photographs, taken on film, escape categorisation and stand in stark contrast to today's digital aesthetic canons.
For Viriya Chotpanyavisut, these photographs, which combine dreamt and realised images, merge the exterior and interior worlds. These images represent "thoughts captured in tangible, material form".
Curated by Perrine Lacroix
Guided tour on Saturday at 3pm
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