THOMAS PAQUET

French-Canadian artist 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 reveal 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.

EXHIBITIONS AT THE GALLERY

EXHBITIONS

2023
”Épreuves de la matière”, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Approches, Résidence Picto Lab / Expérimenter l’image, Paris
In-Material, Metahaus, Paris
Private Choice, Paris
”The Dialectic of the Shadow”, Bigaignon, Paris
”Rien n’échappe à la lumière”, Thomas Paquet, Odile Mir, Léonie Alma Mason, Paris
”Chair de temps”, Bigaignon, Paris

2022
”Blue Interlude”, Bigaignon, Paris
NFT- One of a Kinds, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israël
”Radical Perspectives”, Bigaignon, Paris

2021
”Dreaming like a Dreamer”, WeAre, Paris
”Et pendant ce temps le soleil tourne”, Galerie Bigaignon, Paris

2020
The Story Behind with Thomas Paquet, Viewing Room, Galerie Thierry Bigaignon, Paris
”United”, exposition collective, Galerie Thierry Bigaignon, Paris

2019
”Fragments”, Festival l’image satellite, Nice/Vence, France
Horizons, Moulin de la filature, Le Blanc, France
”L’ombre des heures”, Salon Approche, Paris

2018
”Fragments”, Galerie Thierry Bigaignon, Paris

PUBLICATIONS

2022 Process Magazine
2022 Cyanotypes, Éditions Artfolage
2019 Horizons
2019 Post-Scriptum 2, The(M) Editions & Galerie Thierry Bigaignon

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