Series
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Niagara Tantric Symphony
2023
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In "Niagara Tantric Symphony", Tiane Doan na Champassak revisits a series of paintings created by his father in 1984. The original collection comprised 16 works, each named after musical tempos such as "andante", "allegro", and "vivace". While two of the pieces were sold in the 1980s, the remaining 14 were forgotten for decades in the family attic. In his search for their artistic significance, Doan na Champassak decided to remove the canvases from their original frames, cut them into pieces, and reassemble them as 14 unique books, each corresponding to one of the paintings. This radical transformation of his father’s work — both an act of tribute and a form of vandalism — reinterprets the original figurative compositions into subtly abstract pages, intensifying the atonal and anti-narrative nature of this "tantric symphony."
Binding by Laurel Parker Book
Binding by Laurel Parker Book
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Forms in Color
2021
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In this project of appropriation and variation, Tiane Doan na Champassak restages an obscure treasure found in a flea market in Turin: a collection of negatives from the late 1960s belonging to an anonymous photographer who shot in black and white the colorful instructive pages – animated by feminine nudes – of a photography magazine titled Forms in Color. The peculiarity of his negatives resides not only in reproducing the highly colored images in black and white but also in their compositional rawness as they often contain details such as the angle of the table on which the magazine was shot or the fingers of the photographer while spreading the magazine for the shot. Triggered by the intertextual nature of these apparently clumsy photographs, Doan na Champassak pushes forward their intrinsic mise en abyme by enlarging the negatives in the darkroom, developing them as silver gelatin prints, and then mounting them on vivid-colored boards that recall the chromatics of the original photographs in the magazine.
Unique matted gelatin silver prints
50 x 60 cm
Unique matted gelatin silver prints
50 x 60 cm
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Décollages Féminicides Paris
2020
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4 décollages from the streets of Paris, 2020
unique framed pieces
unique framed pieces
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Taking Off
2020
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In 2018, Tiane Doan na Champassak published “The Veil of Maya 1”, a copious 2000-page volume, edition of 35, consisting of images of layers and layers of posters covering the streets of Kolkata. One year later, he revisited the Indian city and took off – literally – chunks of these posters. Doan na Champassak uses the techniques of décollage and détournement to transform the “flayed skin of a city” into 15 museum pieces meant to work as an installation.
15 multi-layered scraps of posters torn away from the streets of Kolkata
47.5 x 31.5 x 4 cm each, framed
unique
15 multi-layered scraps of posters torn away from the streets of Kolkata
47.5 x 31.5 x 4 cm each, framed
unique
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The Veil of Maya 3
2020
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"The Veil of Maya 3" can be easily subscribed to the tradition of the so called acheiropoieta, a Greek notion that generally defines the "icons made without hands". The mysterious images composing this series consist of found contact sheet prints from the 60s on top of which random negatives got stuck, mainly due to storage, time and humidity. This appropriated material builds up a constellation of its own: floating in their ethereal appearance, the feminine nudes decompose their transparency in sibylline conjunctions, revealing themselves as desirable "icons" miraculously conceived.
Diptychs, 45 x 45 cm each print
C-Print: Fujiflex Crystal Archive
Diptychs, 45 x 45 cm each print
C-Print: Fujiflex Crystal Archive
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Double Positive
2018
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Using a peculiar collection of negatives and contact sheet prints found in a flea market in Bangkok, Tiane Doan na Champassak reenacts the vintage charisma of 14 nude studies from the 1960s. The artist reinterprets this photographic corpus by blowing up each negative and cropping it out according to the original instructions. He then “echoes” the enlarged silver gelatin prints by clipping the corresponding vintage contact sheet on top of each photograph. In this conceptual reactivation of the studio nudes, Doan na Champassask subtly triggers the desire through his own interpretation of the Lacanian “mirror stage”: the double positives.
Unique gelatin silver prints
40 x 50 cm
Unique gelatin silver prints
40 x 50 cm
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