{"id":56877,"date":"2025-11-07T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/?post_type=insights&#038;p=56877"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:45:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:45:47","slug":"cet-obscur-objet-du-desir","status":"publish","type":"insights","link":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/insights\/56877","title":{"rendered":"Cet Obscur Objet du D\u00e9sir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Devaux<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-56881\" src=\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2025\/11\/07091913\/CET-OBSCUR-OBJET-DU-DESIR-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"853\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>CET OBSCUR OBJET DU DESIR Exhibition Poster<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">V&amp;E ART launches French artist Thomas Devaux presents his solo exhibition Cet Obscur Objet du D\u00e9sir (That Obscure Object of Desire) at DK Global Korea in Daegu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-56879\" src=\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2025\/11\/07091353\/DSF6925-S.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Installation View (1)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Inspired by Luis Bu\u00f1uel\u2019s 1977 film of the same name, this series explores desire in today\u2019s consumer society.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-56880\" src=\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2025\/11\/07091356\/Shopper-2.32.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Shopper 2.07 (Thomas Devaux)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starting from photography, Devaux transforms supermarket products into abstract, glowing forms that seem both familiar and sacred.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-56878\" src=\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2025\/11\/07091350\/Silver-11.01-Thomas-Devaux-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Silver 11.01 (Thomas Devaux)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For him, desire is not about romance\u2014it\u2019s about the endless urge to consume and possess. Through digital manipulation and subtle distortion, ordinary objects become symbols of human longing and anxiety.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-56882\" src=\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2025\/11\/07091916\/Protrait-Thomas-DEVAUX-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"483\" \/><em>Protrait of Thomas DEVAUX\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Born in 1980 and based in Paris, Devaux is considered one of the key figures in contemporary French photography. His works are held by major institutions such as the Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale de France, Louis Vuitton Group, and the Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts d\u2019Orl\u00e9ans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>V&amp;E ART<\/p>\n<p>6F-1, No.31, Ln.32, Anhe 2 Rd, Da\u2019an Dist., Taipei , Taiwan<\/p>\n<p>+886 928 969 598<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/veart.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WEB<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/veart.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">INSTAGRAM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[50,51],"class_list":["post-56877","insights","type-insights","status-publish","hentry","category-insight","category-stories"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ko","en"],"languages":{"ko":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insights\/56877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/insights"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}