Silent Blessing was my first solo show at Jam Bar, Bangkok. June 21 – July 14 2019. The show was made exclusively of Cyanotypes that I handprinted, a technique I learned this year for my class Analogue Photography.
SILENT BLESSING — ARTIST STATEMENT
Hunting the sacred and the damned, Silent Blessing explores the relationship between photography and spirituality in a world saturated by images. For his first solo show, Gabriel Camelin chose to work with Cyanotype photography, a 19th Century alternative technique famous for its blue monochrome, to create a series of mystical portraits and haunted Bangkokian notorious buildings. Inspired by the people and places he met in Bangkok, Gabriel’s work combines anachronic image manipulation techniques with a pinch of aura, a drop of grief and a teaspoon of absurdity. Silent Blessing undertakes the creation of relics to worship… or to despise.
Hunting the sacred and the damned, Silent Blessing explores the relationship between photography and spirituality in a world saturated by images. For his first solo show, Gabriel Camelin chose to work with Cyanotype photography, a 19th Century alternative technique famous for its blue monochrome, to create a series of mystical portraits and haunted Bangkokian notorious buildings. Inspired by the people and places he met in Bangkok, Gabriel’s work combines anachronic image manipulation techniques with a pinch of aura, a drop of grief and a teaspoon of absurdity. Silent Blessing undertakes the creation of relics to worship… or to despise.
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