Vincent CHHIM
Vincent Chhim was born in 1969 in Paris. He lives and works in Paris.
Through this portrait entitled The Dépopleur (1996-97), Vincent Chhim, painter of anomaly, disturbs our perception here. He questions the topicality of representation and figuration in painting. It is a very constructed painting which uses the rise of planes through geometrization while employing a type of framing directly taken from photography - here that of an anonymous Nazi official. Beyond the banality of the genre (the portrait), the subject and the use of a technique which deliberately borders on academicism, generate a "disturbing strangeness" due in part to the disturbing and magnified representation of this eye which aims directly to the viewer, leading him to understand the complexity of being, human and monstrous.