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French-Canadian born in 1979, Thomas Paquet questions the nature of time, the structure of its uninterrupted flow and the dynamics of its movement. Thomas Paquet’s work revolves around the fundamental characteristics of photography, light, space and time, in attempt to create and propose viewers a sensitive experience of the world.
His approach to photography is direct, practical. Experimentation is often central to his research and for each of his projects, a specific procedure is implemented, whether optical, physical or chemical. If silver gelatin films are often at the heart of his creative process, he also uses alternative techniques such as instant films, wet collodion, cyanotypes and other 19th century techniques.
The works produced reveals a truly contemporary dimension while exploring the possibilities and limits of the photographic document from within. They are an invitation to go beyond our representation of reality, blurring the boundaries between science and poetry, materiality and abstraction, objectivity and subjectivity.
Solo shows
2023 - Rien n'échappe à la lumière - Bigaignon - Paris, France
2021 - Et pendant ce temps le soleil tourne - Bigaignon - Paris, France
2021 - A rêver comme je rêve - We are / Bigaignon - Paris, France
2019 - Horizons - Moulin de la filature - Le Blanc, France
2019 - Fragments - Festival L’image Satellite - Vence, France
2018 - Fragments - Bigaignon - Paris, France
Group shows
2023 - Epreuves de la matière - BNF - Paris, France
2023 - Biennale de l'image tangible - Galerie Charlot - Paris, France
2023 - Private Choice - Paris, France
2023 - (In)Material - Paris, France
2023 - Marais DigitArt - Paris, France
2023 - La dialectique de l'ombre - Bigaignon - Paris, France
2023 - Chair de temps - Bigaignon - Paris, France
2022 - Éclipse - Charles Zana - Paris, France
2022 - D3sign Capsule - Musée des Archives Nationales - Paris, France
2022 - Interlude Bleu - Bigaignon - Paris, France
2022 - NFT, One af a kinds - Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2022 - Perspectives Radicales - Bigaignon - Paris, France
2021 - Circus - Galerie le 56 - Nantes, France
2020 - United - Bigaignon - Paris, France
2019 - Temps présent - Angles sur l'Anglin, France
Publications
2023 - Epreuves de la matière - (M) éditions / BNF
2022 - Contre-culture dans la photographie contemporaine, Michel Poivert - éditions Textuel
2022 - Cyanotypes, appropriations contemporaines - Éditions Artfolage
Fairs
2023 - De la chambre noire - Salon Approche - Paris, France
2023 - Art Paris - Bigaignon - Paris, France
2021 - Paris Photo - Bigaignon - Paris, France
2019 - L’ombre des heures - Salon Approche / Bigaignon - Paris, France
Collections
Musée français de la photographie
CNP
Collection Galiana-Wiart
BNF
Prices
2023 - Winner PICTO LAB / EXPÉRIMENTER L'IMAGE residency
2023 - Selected Biennale de l'image tangible
2022 - Finalist BMW Art Makers prize
2022 - Finalist Swiss Life à 4 Mains prize
2021- Finalist Prix du tirage Florence et Damien Bachelot - CIPGP prize
2021- Short List Prix photo du festival international de photographie de Hyères
2020 - Short List Résidence de la Fondation des Treilles
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