LES PACHADAMY
A photo-graphy of the absurd
A four-hand artistic experience about our time
The painter Gil Adamy and the photographer François Pache explore a new field of photo-graphy in a four-handed creative experience.
On one hand, Adamy’s Zurlu tribe characters, who only have half a brain and one eye behave in a peculiar way. On the other hand, François Pache’s photographs of deserted living areas catch the traces left by their last inhabitants. Those forgotten places are brought back to life by the ravings of the Zurlu tribe of Adamy’s drawings. The contrast between the graphical simplicity of the characters and the dark reality of the photographs creates an innovating and disturbing effect.
With opposed registers and a touch of the absurd, the work transforms the gloomy atmosphere of the site into a joyful meditation. The series of works is an invitation to travel in an imaginary yet indeed real world. It is also an allegory of our drifting world which gracefully eludes pathos.
The PACHADAMY connect imagination with reality, wishing to be seen in turns as messengers, mediators and trailblazers. François Pache, a phenomenology photographer, and Adamy, a neo-pop painter and creator of comics, met around the issue of searching for meaning in a world in profound mutation. In their view, artistic creation is a joint answer they explore based on a mixed and offbeat universe, leading the bystander to search for the meaning beyond the picture.
