“My work always has a double reading.”
Thomas Devaux (FR, 1980) is a visual artist and photographer based in Paris. His work sits close to painting and drawing and deals with the sacred, the profane and transcendence. In his series Attrition, he takes ordinary snapshots, such as photos of gallery openings, and uses them as raw material. He blends and reshapes them into unreal figures and unsettling deities, building a mythology of his own. His later series The Shoppers / Rayons shows anonymous shoppers at the supermarket checkout, caught at the moment they pay. His signature black-and-white treatment lifts them into modern icons and turns the images into a quiet fable about consumption.