• Matthieu Gafsou Only God Can Judge Me
  • Matthieu Gafsou Only God Can Judge Me
  • Matthieu Gafsou Only God Can Judge Me
  • Matthieu Gafsou Only God Can Judge Me
  • Matthieu Gafsou Only God Can Judge Me

Matthieu Gafsou Only God Can Judge Me

Matthieu Gafsou spent more than a year immersed in the lives of drug addicts. His photographs reveal the night, the moral abandon, and an altered reality. The portraits are noble, picturesque, far from the clichés the subject attracts; they reside alongside still lifes, allegorical landscapes, and abstractions. Together, they evoke a dark and poetic world where the function of photography is to render things as fantasy rather than to explain them. Matthieu Gafsou lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland. After studying history and film esthetics, he studied photography at the School of Applied Arts in Vevey. Since 2006 he participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Europe and the United States. He received the famous Prix de la fondation HSBC pour la photographie in 2009 and was selected in the exhibition reGeneration2 in 2010, organized by the Musée de l'Elysée, which presents young and aspiring photographers from around the world. Since 2012 he teaches at the University of Art and Design Lausanne.

Hardcover 23 x 29 cm 104 pages 55 color illustrations English, French Available ISBN 978-3-86828-485-0 2014

Artist:

Matthieu Gafsou

Texts:

Antonin Artaud

Design:

Kehrer Design

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Exhibitions

Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne
04.06. – 25.08.2014

Kunst, Zürich
30.10. – 02.11.2014

Galerie Eric Mouchet, Paris
18.10 – 22.11.2014

Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Munich
22.01. – 24.06.2016

La Chaux-de-Fonds - Art Paris Art Fair, Paris, France
Galerie Eric Mouchet & Galerie Zlotowski / Booth B12
05.–08.04.2018

H+
Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
02.07.–08.07.2018

Only God Can Judge Me
Fotoleggendo, Rome, Italy
8.–10.06.2018

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