Aura Drawing

Guillaume Combal lives and works between Dublin and Montpellier. Born in the Languedoc-Roussillon, in the south of France, he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Photography before undertaking his master degree in the Plastic Expression of Art at the ‘École des Beaux-Arts’ of Montpellier. He graduated with a distinction for the quality and realisation of his work in 2012. Guillaume Combal, through his exhibitions and plastic work, expresses the hypothesis that the act of photography can directly influence the evolution of our capacities of perception. Scientific processes inspire his artistic movement. For him the processes of realisation used for both science and art are similar. The analysis of optical processes, which partake in our daily lives could be done with art. Starting from the act of photography, Guillaume Combal explores every component of cameras in both technically and abstract ways. Through this research he put himself, neither in front or behind the camera, but directly inside its mechanism. For the last few years he is fascinated by the colour black as a light source. Inimitable, this idea is directly related to the way we see the world. In fact, do colors exist if we do not look at them?