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Thomas Jorion

La Camera Gialla

2009

Fine Art Prints, Lambda satin-finish photography

80 × 100 cm

Ed. 3/8

Location: Paris, France

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About the artwork

Originating from the artist's travels in Italy, this photograph of "La Camera Gialla", which translates as "the yellow room", shows an abandoned room with a pierced floor and a closed window, framed by yellow light penetrating the sides. A true vestige of the past, this work is striking for its light, particularly that emanating from the window, whose hue seems artificial. It is part of the narrative framework of Thomas Jorion's work, particularly marked by the theme of ruins. The artist's practice follows in Diderot's footsteps: "The ideas that ruins awaken in me are great. Everything is annihilated, everything perishes, everything passes away. Only the world remains. There is only time that lasts."

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This photograph perfectly embodies the work of Thomas Jorion, who travels to photograph ruins and, with them, the history of the world.

About the artist

French photographer born in 1976. Lives and works in Paris. Self-taught, he travels the world capturing ruins and neglected places with a large-format 4x5 analog camera. Through his work, the artist expresses the passing of time beyond our control. He also questions materiality by focusing on buildings, stripped of their primary function and lustre, but whose apparent obsolescence provides a new aesthetic appeal, a certain renaissance. Thomas Jorion is represented by the Esther Woerdehoff and Insula galleries in Paris.

“It's an interplay of windows, sometimes blind, sometimes symbolized, sometimes leading to a fantasized exterior. These windows take us back to our own interiority, questioning our capacity for projection and the power of the imaginary.”

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