Thomas Hauser biography, install shots, exhibitions, artworks, sculptures, photographies
Thomas Hauser was born in 1984 in Paris, France and is currently based in Marseille, France. He completed his studies at École supérieure d’art & de design Marseille-Méditerranée, France in 2008 and at California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco, USA in 2009.
Hauser develops photographic and sculptural works around our perception of memories, the way they are preserved, archived and reproduced. He mainly captures portraits of his family members, close friends, as well as details of classical sculptures, tombs, rocks and architecture. He manipulates the images to construct an erased genealogy, a lost memory, which is brought back to life. As an architect of collective memory, he deconstructs the notion of the archive, subjecting his images to a process of degradation and abstraction. Although plastically connected to photography, conceptually, his work is connected to sculpture and cinema - of which he uses the techniques of montage and temporal fragmentation. Hauser is known for manipulating his photographs by photocopying them, cropping them and printing them again with all kinds of imperfections and traces of use. Their original photograph becomes less significant and is blurred by many interventions. One of his techniques is to create a silk screen print with glue rather than ink. Once the paper is coated with glue, the black matte toner for a laser printer or a copier device is spread over the paper by Hauser. The image appears where the glue and toner connects.
Selected exhibitions:
Paris Photo (Curiosa), Grand Palais, Paris, France (2019), FOAM Talent exhibition, Red Hook Labs, New York, USA (2019), FOAM Talent exhibition, FOAM Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2019), FOAM Talent exhibition, Deutsche Börse Foundation, The Cube, Frankfurt (2019), FOAM Talent exhibition, Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, London (2019), Back to the Future, C/O Berlin, Germany (2018), Back to the Future, Mai Mano House, Budapest, Hungary (2019) , The Wake of Dust, Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, France (2018), Image/imatge Art Center, Orthez, France (2017), Un-Spaced, Paris, France (2017, 2018), Salon Approche, Paris, France (2017), Aperture Gallery, New York, USA (2017)
Selected Collections:
Neuflize OBC / Paris - FOAM / Amsterdam -
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Le soleil se lève aussi
A group show at Manifesta - Lyon 6 Mar - 21 Apr 2021Le soleil se lève aussi At the kind invitation of Céline Melon Sibille, the founder of Manifesta Lyon, the UN-SPACED gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition 'Le...Read more -
Ubiquity
18 Dec 2020 - 28 Feb 2021'Ubiquity' is an online group exhibition, embracing its virtual form of presentation by inviting the audience to view the artworks via their mobile devices within their home setting. The exhibition...Read more -
Paris Photo Curiosa
Solo presentation of works by Thomas Hauser 7 - 10 Nov 2019Solo presentation of works by Thomas Hauser, part of the FOAM Talents 2019, during Paris Photo 2019Read more -
Art Rotterdam 2019
Solo presentation of recent photography by Thomas Hauser 7 - 10 Feb 2019Solo presentation of recent photography by Thomas Hauser, the FOAM Talent awarded, during Art Rotterdam 2019, RotterdamRead more -
UN-SPACED at Bienvenue
Group show by Anne-Valérie Gasc, Thomas Hauser and Laurence Vauthier 16 - 27 Oct 2018Group show by Anne-Valérie Gasc, Thomas Hauser and Laurence Vauthier à l'occasion de Bienvenue 2018, ParisRead more -
THE WAKE OF DUST | Les Rencontres d'Arles
THE WAKE OF DUST, solo show by Thomas Hauser on the occasion of Les Rencontres d'Arles 2018 2 Jul - 23 Sep 2018THE WAKE OF DUST, solo show by Thomas Hauser on the occasion of Les Rencontres d'Arles 2018Read more -
Solo show
Solo show by Thomas Hauser 1 Feb - 1 Mar 2017Solo show by Thomas Hauser at UN-SAPCED Gallery Paris, 2017Read more -
Open studio
Group show by Éric Stephany, Éric Tabuchi, Guillaume Constantin, Evol, Fabien Granet, Thomas Hauser, & Nicolas Silberfaden 22 - 29 Dec 2016Group show by Éric Stephany, Éric Tabuchi, Guillaume Constantin, Evol, Fabien Granet, Thomas Hauser, & Nicolas Silberfaden at UN-SPACED Gallery Paris, 2017Read more
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AND ALL THAT IS LEFT ARE FRAGMENTS WHICH HAUNT YOU LIKE HALF-FORGOTTEN DREAMS
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Rencontres d’Arles
Léa Bismuth, Le bruissement -
Dans les coulisses des Rencontres photographiques d’Arles avec Thomas Hauser.
The Gaze of Parisienne -
Les Rencontres d’Arles : voyage en enfance
Fisk Eye -
Carte blanche à Anne Immelé : Avant l’effacement : Ester Voplon, Thomas Hauser, Isabelle Giovacchini
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THOMAS HAUSER THE WAKE OF DUST – ARLES
Point Contemporain, September 4, 2018 -
Thomas Hauser - The Wake of Dust
Les rencontre d'Arles, July 4, 2018