Spleen and Ideal
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 project, which centers on gender and identity confusions, photography is a matter of decisive distance between immersion and detachment.
All images were taken in Thailand between 2010 and 2011, and form the first part of a larger body of work in progress, born out of a persistent urge to photographically confront questions regarding gender and sexuality.
Ilfochrome prints, edition of 5, image size 24X24 cm.
Spleen and Ideal was published in 2012 by Mörel Books.
Tiane Doan na Champassak (b. 1973, France) photographs for international magazines such as National Geographic, Stern and Newsweek. He is represented by the French agency Agence Vu.
