Tiane Doan na Champassak (born in 1973) is a French visual artist. His photographic work explores the themes of sexuality and gender identity.
Photo: © Adam Carroll
Tiane Doan na Champassak (born in 1973) is a French visual artist. His photographic work explores the themes of sexuality and gender identity.
Photo: © Adam Carroll
The depiction of sexuality is an enduring theme in his practice in which he explores the relation between his own photographic production and appropriated images seen by the filters of anonymity and censorship. The sources are diverse and include the Internet, personal memorabilia and magazine cuttings, all of which are recontextualized in a new light.
All his self-published artist books are released under the label Siam’s Guy Books.
2017 Censored
3AM by AM Projects
The Strip
2016 41.667
Tamarind Ghosts
Hardcore
Palms
Siam’s Guy
My Freedom
2015 No Photos
Ovr Sxe Dsir
Abstracts by AM Projects
Sunless
2014 Sale
Kolkata
Dick999
Looters
2013 Credo
2012 Spleen and Ideal
Nocturnes by AM Projects
The Father of Pop Dance
Tantra
2011 Looters
The King of Photography
No Photo
2003 Le Sexe des Anges
Presentation by Siam's Guy Books: " Women's bodies buried under fingerprints, brushstrokes encapsulating a breast or encircling a silhouette, enigmatic images appear on the screen. A dreamlike gallery of trails and traces reveals a sort of tension between the tangible and the intangible. Reenacting the pure tactile pleasure of scrolling, fondling and...
RVB Books' presentation: "Over the course of his travels for the last ten years Tiane Doan na Champassak has been collecting Thai erotic magazines dating back to the 1960s and 1970s. With representations of nudity banned at the time, the magazines' censorship is applied with great creativity and care. For the creation of this project, Censored, the artist...
.Last copy!. Publisher's presentation: "January 2016. Every night in the heart of Patpong, Bangkok's oldest red-light district, The Strip opens its doors. By an exceptional favour granted, Tiane Doan na Champassak seizes the most unsettling ballet."352 pages - Softcover Siam's Guy Books, 2017 (475 copies) Format : 20 x 30 cm *Signed* New - Mint condition
Publisher's presentation: "In the 60s, inside Bangkok's Chinatown, a printer makes a printing test for a book about palmistry..."68 pages - Softcover Siam's Guy Books, 2016 (200 copies) Format : 14 x 19 cm *Signed* New - Mint condition
.Very last copy!.Publisher's presentation: "Tamarind Ghosts by Tiane Doan na Champassak presents an exploration of eroticism, censorship and prostitution in Thailand. In days gone by, most prostitutes in Bangkok plied their trade in the area around Sanam Luang Park; under the watchful gaze of the Royal Palace. As they stood soliciting customers beneath...
.Sold out.Presentation on the artist's website : "By selecting details of naked bodies from photographs found in Thai hardcore magazines from the 70s, Tiane Doan na Champassak delivers an unexpected vision of pornography: invisible sexes and skillfully framed and enlarged, nearly rasterized details, compose images that verge on abstraction. The absence of...
Présentation de l'éditeur : "In addition to his personal photographic practice, A French artist of Asian origin, Tiane Doan na Champassak carries out a reflection about anonymous photography, collected via various sources such as Internet, family albums, or again periodicals. His work often translates into bookmaking and publishing and he has already...
Presentation on the publisher's website: ""In Spleen and Ideal, beauty is pursued across the disintegrating boundaries between male and female. Transgressive sexual encounters with what at times seems to be one and the same person are captured on instant film and mixed with impressions of the urban architecture in which they are anchored. In this...
The King of Photography (*signed*)
.One copy available.Gathered portraits of the King of Thaïland with a camera in his hands or around his neck.Risograph printing. First and only printing.64 pages - Stapled softcover Self-published, 2011 (250 copies) *Signed* As new - Mint condition
No Photos (*signed / imperfect*)
Presentation on Tiane Doan na Champassak's website : "All photographs were taken in the red-light district of Amsterdam. The title No Photos has different meanings. First, the forbidden act to photograph the sex workers in their environment. Secondly, the images are printed on very old photographic papers which are fading away even further in the book...
.Sold out. Presentation on the artist's website : "« August, 1943. Night is falling on Calcutta, silencing its flocks of ravens, but wakening another kind of life – a feverish, hidden one : in the Maidan, that open space at the city’s heart, there are shadows waiting. » My uncle, Thaï Doan na Champassak, published Ancestral Voices by Collins – London in...
.Last copies - White and Blue covers only. Presentation by Editions du LIC: "In Sunless by Tiane Doan na Champassak, beauty is pursued across the disintegrating boundaries between male and female. The images in Sunless, taken in Thailand between 2012 and 2013, form the second part of a larger body of work-in-progress, born out of a persistent urge to...
Publisher's presentation RVB Books: "Tiane Doan na Champassak worked on anonymous photographs he found posted on the blogs and websites of the Indian subcontinent’s exhibitionists and swingers. He collected the images posted by men in which we see their wives or partners exposed but in which the men took great care to cover up with Photoshop any clues as...
Looters - 2nd edition (*signed*)
Following the 2011 first edition, this second edition of Looters has been slightly modified, in a slightly larger format (but still in the Risograph process), features images gathered on the Internet, coming from CCTV for most of them; enlarged, pixelated portraits of looters during the 2011 London riots.This book (the first edition) is listed in "The...
.Only one copy.Tiane Doan na Champassak (Looters, King of Photography, Tantra, Father of Pop Dance) presents in Credo images of Haiti and India made between 2004 and 2007 around rituals related to cults and beliefs.Faithful to the process of reproduction "Risograph" for his small productions such as Credo (200 ex.), The artist here takes advantage of a...
Le rivage - Une épopée indochinoise
Tiane Doan na Champassak a voyagé en Inde, en Thaïlande, au Brésil, au Mexique, et en Birmanie à la rencontre de communautés de transsexuelles. Le photographe porte un regard direct, parfois abrupt mais toujours bienveillant sur ces personnes qui ne sont considérées ni comme des hommes ni comme des femmes, et mènent une vie de combat et de douleur pour...
Le rivage - Une épopée indochinoise
.Sold out. Intéressant dialogue entre des clichés d'Indochine du début du XXème siécle réalisés par la grand-mère de Tiane Doan na Champassak, et des images du Vietnam et du Cambodge aujourd'hui réalisées par l'artiste. Le travail de Tiane Doan na Champassak a gagné le monde l'édition indépendante en 2011 et 2012, lorsqu'il a publié plusieurs livres...
.Sold out.A beautiful object, a unique theme, a homogeneous series, simple and improbable at the same time, delusional pictures, this book is a small UFO! Signed by the author!This series shows images of Tiane Doan na Champassak's father, photographed in the 60s in a Los Angeles studio, during a presentation session of the dance moves of the time.To the...