Emmanuel Monzon is a photographer and visual artist, living and working in Seattle. He has exhibited his works in France (Paris), Singapore, USA (New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, TX, CO), London. He has also participated in several arts fairs and collective exhibitions. He graduated from the Beaux Arts in Paris, with honors (Vladimir Velikovick), and also holds a degree in Visual Arts. ENTER THE VOID is his first solo exhibition in Asia.

 

ENTER THE VOID

The work of Emmanuel Monzon focuses primarily on the idea of urban sprawling and the expansion of its periphery. Monzon photographs banality as though it were a Romantic painting, trying only to be “stronger than this big nothing” in controlling the space by framing the subject. Monzon’s aesthetic of the banal obeys its own rules : a ban on living objects, a precise geometrical organization, and the revelation of a specific physical and mental landscape blurring the lines between city and suburb, between suburb and countryside, a process that results in an independent identity.

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"This aesthetic of the void in my photographic work attempts to understand our current environment : can it be one of de-civilization? "E.Monzon