Pauline Thomas

“I want to tell a story.” This is what Pauline Thomas aims for through her various works. She seeks to enhance the real—not to embellish it, but to question and provoke reflection in a sensory way; to open souls and eyes to parallel realities; to interrogate nature and transcend genders.

For this artist, composition is created by the play of lighting angles and colors, rather than the subject itself. Her desire is to conjure another reality through ambiguity. This is eroticism as understood by Georges Bataille: the tension of continuity in the relation between two opposites. The works shown in New York as part of The Other Art Fair—and taken from the series Gorgeous and Les Nuits—are the illustration of this.

The series Les Nuits (2015-2016) consists of photographs of painted objects found in nature. The essence of these discarded elements changes in the dark, emanating a contradictory sensation, of beauty and death.

“Unlike traditional paintings and photographs of still lives, the scene is not more realistic. It depicts an advanced stage of passing, inspiring a meditation on the ephemeral nature of things.”

In Gorgeous (2007-2011)—the title plays upon the French word for “throat” (gorge)— the natural power of this pa...

ENSAD Paris with honors
GOBELINS, MASTER'S DEGREE with honors
UNIVERSITY PARIS 8 PHOTOGRAPHY AND NEW MEDIA with honors

SHOWS

My work is exhibited in galleries, art centers, juried exhibition throughout many countries Australia, US, Italy, Ukraine, France, UK, Germany.

2023 : Quinté + par Marie Taddéï, Boulogne, FR
2022 : OAA, 4 rue Duverger, Marseille, FR
2021 : Collectif Tape Over, Fernsehturm, Berlin
2021 : Accords suspendus, galerie La Nave Va, Marseille, Fr
2019 : Dévisager - art du portrait, Galerie Christophe Gratadou, Paris, Fr
2019 : Projection Voix-Off / Fotofever Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles, Fr
2019 : Gorgeous, Monumental /experimental, Atelier, Paris, Fr
2019 : YIA, Young International Artist, Paris, Fr
2018-2022 : Lecture de Portfolio, Carré sur Seine, Boulogne, France
2022-2019 : Portes Ouvertes des Ateliers d’Artistes de Belleville, Paris, Fr
2018 : The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, US
2018 : Partie de Campagne, Chassagne-Montrachet, France
2018 : Gorgeous, Les Nuits, Mapping Vacuum Density, SometimeStudio, Paris, Fr
2017 : Les Nuits, Mapping vacuum Density, Paris, Atelier, Fr
2017: The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn
2016: Les Sentiers de la création, Lizieres Art Center & Jean de La Fontaine Gallery, France ( 1 video, 50 prints, 1 installation )
2015: Le Noir et blanc en couleurs, Lizieres Art Center, France ( 3 photographs )
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