Guillaume Chamahian

Guillaume Chamahian’s artistic work was at first characterised by its own photographic style, which was directly concerned with the convulsions of the contemporary world. After having travelled to several countries to produce images of its collapse, his work now focuses on questioning the song and dance of representations that washes over the Internet and the way information is covered on various theatres of operations (military, geopolitical, in the media). Over the course of several years, the artist worked on the Syrian conflict without ever showing it straightforwardly. He took a particular interest in the Caesar Report, which gave an account of the atrocities committed in the Syrian regime’s prisons. He saw in it a new manifestation of human horror and, based on this example, attempted to deconstruct the mechanics at play in war propaganda. Guillaume Chamahian’s work is as investigative as it is denunciatory, but it is also (and mostly) bolstered by the strong and personal feeling that humankind and the world are on their last legs.