Overview participating exhibitions
All Colours Will Agree in the Dark
2013
All Colours Will Agree in the Dark
Olivier Pin-Fat
Dead Light, Bone Dry
Olivier Pin-Fat (United Kingdom, 1969) makes lyrical and yet unsentimental photographs which do not so much show reality, but challenge us to reflect about an underlying reality. His work has been shown and published all over the world. Between 1998 and 2008 he was connected with Agence VU’; presently he is a curator as well as being a photographer. DEAD LIGHT, BONE DRY will appear in book form in 2013.
Metropolis
2011
Metropolis
Olivier Pin-Fat
DEAD LIGHT, BONE DRY (Thailand, 2004-2009)
In a series of interrelated photos Olivier Pin-Fat evokes his physical and mental confrontation with Bangkok. Beginning in 2004, during the infamous Thai war on drugs, he gives his subjective view of the ghastly political landscape. He does that by working with 135 and 120 millimetre film that he mauls like a vandal. The formlessness and distortion is a reflection of his state of mind, of the unpredictability of the city, and of what the city allowed him to rescue from the debris.
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DEAD LIGHT, BONE DRY (Thailand, 2004-2009)
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DEAD LIGHT, BONE DRY (Thailand, 2004-2009)
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DEAD LIGHT, BONE DRY (Thailand, 2004-2009)
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DEAD LIGHT, BONE DRY (Thailand, 2004-2009)
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DEAD LIGHT, BONE DRY (Thailand, 2004-2009)
Act of Faith
2007
Act of Faith
Olivier Pin-Fat
COMING HOME (China, 2001)
The Hakka Chinese, a Chinese subgroup with their own language, organize complex and clandestine death ceremonies. These permit the spirits of their ancestors to return to the parental home, in order to then send them on to heaven. Olivier Pin Fat, part Hakka Chinese, attended such a ceremony which was held for his grandfather. The rituals, his stay in the 500-year-old Hakka village, and the stories about his grandfather taught him much about the history of his family. Thus it was not only the spirit of his grandfather that was brought home by the ceremony, but Olivier Pin Fat himself.
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COMING HOME (China, 2001)
The Hakka Chinese, a Chinese subgroup with their own language, organize complex and clandestine death ceremonies. These permit the spirits of their ancestors to return to the parental home, in order to then send them on to heaven. Olivier Pin Fat, part Hakka Chinese, attended such a ceremony which was held for his grandfather. The rituals, his stay in the 500-year-old Hakka village, and the stories about his grandfather taught him much about the history of his family. Thus it was not only the spirit of his grandfather that was brought home by the ceremony, but Olivier Pin Fat himself.
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COMING HOME (China, 2001)
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COMING HOME (China, 2001)
Biography
Olivier Pin-Fat (United Kingdom, 1969) makes lyrical and yet unsentimental photographs which do not so much show reality, but challenge us to reflect about an underlying reality. His work has been shown and published all over the world. Between 1998 and 2008 he was connected with Agence VU’; presently he is a curator as well as being a photographer. DEAD LIGHT, BONE DRY will appear in book form in 2013.
