Galerie Rivière/Faiveley, on rue Notre Dame de Nazareth in Paris, features the work of photographer Thomas Devaux in its latest exhibition.
He explores the profane and the sacred, bringing the two realms together in This obscure object of desire, with his new series The Shoppers and the next part of his Attrition I series, plus two installations.
Thomas Devaux’s approach is simultaneously ruderal and aesthetic. The visual artist has always created his forms from apparent desolation, in his first collages, the more recent reliquaries, then the Attrition I & II photography series. He builds representations on the ruins of the initial images, destructuring then reorganising parts or whole bodies, the traces of which he has gradually collected. He gathers his material – visual and organic – at exhibition openings, then re-establishes the codes of this social theatre, with all its controlled visibility, in an imaginary world that takes its inspiration from religious art. In the realm of the trivial, Thomas Devaux’s work depicts figures that are as carnal as they are ethereal, and whose fetishist character re-examines the aesthetics of desire and its relationship with art.
EXHIBITION
Cet obscur objet du désir
Thomas Devaux
From May 19th, to July 2nd, 2016
La Galerie Rivière/Faiveley
70 Rue Notre Dame de Nazareth
75003 Paris
France
http://galerierivierefaiveley.com
