Gwennaëlle Gribaumont writes on Thomas Devaux’s exhibition Cet obscur objet du désir in La Libre in an article entitled Thomas Devaux et les spectres de la déraison.
Taking its title from Luis Buñuel's iconic film, Cet obscur objet du désir (1977) is undoubtedly one of the must-see exhibitions of the moment.
The artist explains: "This exhibition is about desire, but a troubled kind of desire... Not desire between a man and a woman, but between an individual and a consumer object. I try to probe this tension by summoning objects captured in supermarkets into my work." By reworking his photographs, notably by blurring them, Thomas Devaux manages to distill a substantial energy embodied in color transitions and unidentifiable shapes. In all cases, our landmarks are crushed by the dissolution of motifs and the use of ascending formats that convert the profane into the sacred.
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