About the artist
Thomas Devaux, born in France in 1980, is a French visual artist whose practice lies at the intersection of photography, sculpture, and installation. With a background in image manipulation, Devaux treats photographs not as fixed representations but as raw material—sculpting light, transforming texture, and reconfiguring form. His work deconstructs identity and sacred iconography, drawing upon baroque naturalism, religious painting, and the aesthetics of cinema and fashion to explore themes of transcendence, fetishism, and desire.
Devaux’s recent body of work, The Shoppers, marks a critical and conceptual shift in his practice. Capturing anonymous supermarket customers at the checkout, he turns these ordinary figures into ghostly icons of late capitalism. Blending realism with abstraction, Devaux blurs the boundaries between the sacred and the banal, revealing the psychological toll of hyper-consumerism. Through translucent, almost immaterial portrayals, he questions the identity of the modern subject in a system driven by desire and saturation. His installations—featuring industrial moving walkways, sound, and sculptural elements—immerse viewers in the mechanisms of consumption. Minimal yet powerful, these environments confront us with our own passivity, isolation, and commodification.
Thomas Devaux has exhibited internationally, including at Art Paris, Photo London, Art Singapore, and BRAFA. His works are held in both private and public collections across Europe and Asia