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Tomás Amorim : Monticolæ

Mixing sculpture and photography, Tomás Amorim‘s practice questions the materiality of the photographic image, and more specifically the possibility of creating images in volume, in relief or on uneven surfaces. Trained as a photographer and visual artist, Tomás Amorim draws his inspiration from the opposition between the time-consuming shaping of sculpture and the instantaneity of light, or from the opposition between the manual labor intrinsic to sculpture and the omnipresence of the machine in the photographer’s work. An artist of diverse aspirations, strongly influenced by the natural landscape and specifically by the mountainous landscape, Tomás Amorim uses light as raw material and natural forms as inspiration..

#Monticolæ is an ongoing research project, initiated in 2021 on the basis of various plastic/photographic experiments whose primary objective is to question the non-planarity of the photographic medium.

Tomás Amorim works with the image as a material in itself; sculpting, folding, incising and molding are just some of the gestures in his repertoire. Traditionally, the image captured by the photographic tool is frequently represented on a flat surface such as projection or paper, but here it is precisely the existence of a relief that forms the image. The practice of photography and sculpture testifies to his desire to create a photographic work that questions sensations and perspectives, that creates a visual disorder between flatness and volume, between two art disciplines that are opposed in principle..

After studying geography in Brazil, Tomás Amorim obtained a Master’s degree in Latin American Studies from the Institut des Hautes Études de l’Amérique Latine in Paris, and a Master’s degree in Plastic Arts and Photography from the Université Paris VIII, in 2020. 

A member of the “La vie sauvage” artists’ collective, he is the recipient of several artistic residencies in France and abroad. His work has been exhibited in France, notably at La Longue Vue (Île-Saint-Denis, France) in 2021 and at the Fédération Française pour l’Unesco (Paris, France) in 2018.

A ppr oc he Artfair

November 9-12, 2023 / 1:00-8:00 p.m.

Le Molière, 40 rue de Richelieu, 75001 Paris

Free entrance upon reservation