Paranoïd #12, 2020

David De Beyter  

David De Beyter is a French photographer. His approach to photography is both conceptual and documentary. He explores the boundaries between reality and fiction, through the sources and techniques he uses (archive images, 3D inlay, specific cameras and cameras), but also through a blurring of time references. His artistic work is mainly based on the concept of the practice (s) of landscape, he questions through these installations in exhibition the different statuses of the image. In his latest project, Big Bangers, he develops more anthropological concerns, and on this occasion opens his artistic work to the filmed image, but also to installation and sculpture, refining his reflection and plastic proposals around the notion of obsolescence.

David De Beyter graduated from the Photography Workshop of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre in Brussels in 2008, and from Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing in 2010. Her work is exhibited in group exhibitions in France and abroad (Fotomuseum of Vienna, Festival of International Photography F/Stop in Leipzig, European Photography Month in Berlin, So Film Foundation in Sofia, Aperture Foundation in New York, Musée de L'élysée de Lausanne with the Regeneration 2 project distributed internationally). From 2015 to 2017, he set up a co-production around his Big Bangers project between the Centre d'art Image/Imatge in Pau, the Centre d'art le BBB in Toulouse and the Centre Photographique d'île de France, a co-production that resulted in a personal exhibition in each of the places involved. Articles on his work have appeared in Art Press, Le Monde 2, Mouvement, Libération and Usbek&Rica. His work has recently been selected for the prestigious FOAM Talent (2017) photographic exhibition to be held in Amsterdam, Paris, Brussels, London and New York in 2017 and 2018. David De Beyter is nominated this year with his new project "The Skeptics" for the New Discovery Prize of the Rencontres d'Arles 2019.