Tiane Doan na Champassak (1973) is a French visual artist of Asian descent, living between Venice and Paris. In the last 10 years, he has developed a complex body of work infusing his own photographic production with techniques of appropriation, variation, décollage and reiteration. Champassak primarily subjects found materials from the streets, flea markets and the internet as well as magazine cuttings, photographs, family albums and memorabilia. By using a large variety of conceptual processes, his practice is based on the recontextualization of readymades, exploring notions such as détournement (diversion) and acheiropoieta (works made without human interaction). A strong focus in his work is producing artist’s books, which have lately become part of important private and public collections such as Centre Pompidou (Paris), Tate Modern (London), Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles), International Center of Photography, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney’s Collection and NYPL (New York), Bibliotheca Hertziana (Rome), Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid), to name but a few.
BOOKS
Paris-Hollywood – RVB Books, 2022
Copy That – Edition Honoré Visconti, 2022
The Veil of Maya 4 – Siam’s Guy Books, 2022
Burning Matter – Siam’s Guy Books, 2022
Indo-Chine – Humboldt Books, 2022
Via Pia – Siam’s Guy Books, 2021
Making Of / Taking Off – Siam’s Guy Books, 2020
The Veil of Maya 3 – Siam’s Guy Books, 2020
City – Siam’s Guy Books, 2019
The Veil of Maya 2 – Siam’s Guy Books, 2019
The Veil of Maya 1 – Siam’s Guy Books, 2018
Scraps – RVB Books, 2018
Strokes – Siam’s Guy Books, 2018
All the Posters Fit to Print – Siam’s Guy Books, 2018
Censored – RVB Books, 2017
3AM by AM Projects – Akina, 2017
The Strip – Siam’s Guy Books, 2017
41.667 – Siam’s Guy Books, 2016
Tamarind Ghosts – Editions du Lic, 2016
Hardcore – Siam’s Guy Books, 2016
Palms – Siam’s Guy Books, 2016
Siam’s Guy – RVB Books, 2016
My Freedom – Siam’s Guy Books, 2016
No Photos – Siam’s Guy Books, 2015
Ovr Sxe Dsir – Siam’s Guy Books, 2015
Abstracts by AM Projects – ADAD Books, 2015
Sunless – Editions du Lic, 2015
Sale – RVB Books, 2014
Kolkata – Editions Bessard, 2014
Dick999 – RVB Books, 2014
Looters – Siam’s Guy Books, 2014
Credo – Siam’s Guy Books, 2013
Spleen and Ideal – Mörel Books, 2012
Nocturnes by AM Projects – Dienacht Publishing, 2012
The Father of Pop Dance – Siam’s Guy Books, 2012
Tantra – Siam’s Guy Books, 2012
Looters – Siam’s Guy Books, 2011
The King of Photography – Siam’s Guy Books, 2011
No Photo – Bellybandbooks, 2011
Le Rivage – Une épopée indochinoise – Seuil, 2008
Le Sexe des Anges – Éditions de la Martinière, 2003
FILMS
Natpwe, the feast of the spirits (Winner of the 2012 Scribe Prize for Cinema and Best Short Documentary CIDFF 2013. Official selection TIFF 2013, NYFF 2013, Festcurtas Belo Horizonte 2013, DOCLISBOA 2013 and IDFA 2013).
EXHIBITIONS
“GIVE ME SOME NEWS”, Galerie Mouvements, Paris, September 2022
“Burning Matter”, Studio 454, Venice, April 2022
“Censored”, Fflag, Turin, September 2020
“The Hoodie”, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, November 2019
“Sunless” and “Corpus”, Résidence 1+2 Toulouse, November 2018
“Corpus”, ISelf Collection: Bumped Bodies, Whitechapel Gallery, London, April 2018
“Spleen and Ideal”, Eyes Wild Open, Museum of Botanique, Bruxelles, February 2018
“The Strip”, Haute Photographie Rotterdam, February 2018
“Censored”, Polka Gallery, Paris Photo, November 2016
“Tamarind Ghosts”, Kahmann Gallery, Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2016
“Public, Private, Secret” (Looters), ICP Museum, New York, USA, June 2016
“Siam’s Guy”, RVB Books Gallery, Paris, France, June 2016
“Transcriptions”, Polka Gallery, Photo London, May 2016
“Sunless”, Silencio, Paris, France, April 2016
“Looters – Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers”, Barbican, London, March 2016
“Last Night in Bangkok – AM Projects”, NACC, Bangkok, Thailand, January 2016
“Abstracts – AM Projects”, Galerie Honoré, Paris, France, October 2015
“Sunless”, Polka Gallery, Paris, France, September 2015
“Abstracts – AM Projects”, Copperfield Gallery, London, UK, May 2015
“Looters”, Format International Photography Festival, Derby, UK, March 2015
“Fieret + Tiane”, Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 2014
“Dick999”, East Wing Gallery, Paris Photo, France, November 2014
“Looters”, Galerie Les Yeux Ouverts, Fontainebleau, October 2014
“Sunless”, Kahmann Gallery, Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2014
“Dick999”, RVB Books Gallery, Paris, France, June 2014
“No Photo”, group show “The Old Man & The Sea”, Kahmann Gallery, The Netherlands, January 2014
“Looters”, East Wing Gallery, Paris Photo, France, November 2013
“Sunless”, Kahmann Gallery, PAN Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 2013
“Sunless”, Kahmann Gallery, Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2013
“Looters”, East Wing Gallery, Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2013
“Showroom – Spleen and Ideal”, The Copper House Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, June 2013
“Looters”, LWS Gallery, Paris, France, May 2013
“All Colours Will Agree in the Dark”, Noorderlicht Gallery, Groningen, The Netherlands, April 2013
“Lenin Sarani”, Format festival, Derby, UK, March 2013
“Spleen and Ideal”, East Wing Gallery, Paris-Photo, November 2012
“Spleen and Ideal”, Le Plac’Art Photo, Paris, November 2012
“Spleen and Ideal”, East Wing Gallery, Unseen photo fair Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2012
“Between the Lines”, Croxhapox, Ghent, Belgium, May 2012
“Crossing Lalibela”, Dumbarton Oaks Museum, Washington, DC June – October 2011
“Kolkata”, Metropolis 2.0, The Empty Quarter Gallery, Dubai, UAE, October 2011
“Kolkata”, Noorderlicht Photofestival 2011, The Netherlands, September 2011
“No Photo – Palimpseste”, Le Plac d’Art Photo, Paris, October 2011
“Kolkata”, FotoGrafia festival in 2010, Rome, Italy, September 2010
“No Photo”, Artantique, Utrecht, Netherlands, April 2010
“Imagine”, group show, Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 2009 – February 2010
“Corpus”, Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2009
“Eunuchs,” Angkor Photography Festival, Cambodia, November 2007
“Credo – India”, Noorderlicht Photofestival 2007, The Netherlands, September 2007
“1/1000th at 2.8,” European House of Photography, November 2006
“Ecstasy” Images’04, Vevey, Switzerland, September 2004
“Perspectives on ten new European capitals,” Avenue des Champs-Elysées, Paris, May 2004
