Series
Year
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Blow-Up
2023
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Blow-Up is an ongoing project in which Tiane Doan na Champassak investigates the “optical unconscious” of the image by re-enacting visual epiphanies (“apparitions”) he collected over the years: a vintage photographic postcard depicting a Thai Buddhist temple, an original letter by Eugène Delacroix, or a tiny votive image found on the streets of Mumbai.
Archival inkjet prints on Japanese Awagami paper
Various sizes
Edition of 3
Archival inkjet prints on Japanese Awagami paper
Various sizes
Edition of 3
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Persuade everyone to see all the pictures that make you feel joyful
2023
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Using a vintage collection of Western nudes of mysterious origin – all acquired from an antique dealer in Bangkok – Tiane Doan na Champassak challenges the limits of censorship by covering his anachronistic muses with minimal brushstrokes. His pictorial gesture is both ironic and self-ironic, condensing a long history of censorship to an innocuous aesthetic sign as cheerful as the untranslatable, yet inviting, Thai title written on the original set of printouts: Persuade everyone to see all the pictures that make you feel joyful.
Etching ink applied on 45 archival inkjet prints
Japanese Awagami paper
Japanese stab binding and plexiglass backing board covered in wood by Laurel Parker Book
Unique copy
41.3 x 37 x 1.5 cm
Etching ink applied on 45 archival inkjet prints
Japanese Awagami paper
Japanese stab binding and plexiglass backing board covered in wood by Laurel Parker Book
Unique copy
41.3 x 37 x 1.5 cm
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Time
2021
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C-Print: Fujiflex Crystal Archive
44 x 60 cm
44 x 60 cm
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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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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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Copy That
2020
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Tiane Doan na Champassak digs into the culture of the copy by investigating the elusiveness of authenticity and the boundaries between originality and imitation. In this para-photographic experiment, he enlarges a collection of found photographs from the 1970s showing Western pin-ups to be used in the Thai market of erotic magazines. On top of these reproductions, Doan na Champassak stencils – in a military-inspired font – thirteen aphorisms stated by well-known personalities, from Pablo Picasso to Coco Chanel, in which the notion of “copy” is deified.
Unique stencilled archival inkjet prints on Japanese Awagami paper
33 x 45 cm
Unique stencilled archival inkjet prints on Japanese Awagami paper
33 x 45 cm
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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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The Strip
2017
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January 2016. Every night in the heart of Patpong, Bangkok’s oldest red-light district, The Strip opens its doors. By an exceptional favour granted, Tiane Doan na Champassak seizes the most unsettling ballet.
8-colour lithographs printed in Paris by Idem
BFK Rives paper, 270 grams
Edition of 50, signed and numbered
68 x 100 cm / 26.7 x 39.3 inches
8-colour lithographs printed in Paris by Idem
BFK Rives paper, 270 grams
Edition of 50, signed and numbered
68 x 100 cm / 26.7 x 39.3 inches
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Corpus
2009
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Printed on 17th and 18th century-old paper using the Fresson printing process, these unique works made between 2005 and 2009 reveal parts of the human body as abstract forms.
Direct carbon process made by Atelier Fresson
Various sizes
Direct carbon process made by Atelier Fresson
Various sizes
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