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Sanur Beach Bali Bali Indonésie
Born in 1980 in Paris, Romain Osi is a member of the cooperative photographic agency Picturetank. Independent photographer, he works with several french institutions, communication, publishing, and french or international press.
Whatever the topic and selected locations – nocturnal wandering on the motorway, part contained, city-cage concrete leaving no place in heaven, or conversely, desert landscape in which nature reclaims its rights – Romain Osi consists of images he has to see as fragments of life taken from the world with pinpoint accuracy.
At night the electric lights and give them a context where uncertainty often arises characters such appearances that were not expected. Photographs are sometimes traversed by light flashes, sometimes filled with an aura green or blue, heralding a new day. Often described as the wandering photographer, Romain Osi opens a window through which hallucinations or fantasized amazing and mysterious place whose decor conducive to the search for truth: truth about ourselves and our environments familiar or strange.
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The quest of the artist becomes the viewer's returned to his solitude, his questionings, his aspirations wandering, its utopias. It is a face to face with himself that offers the photographer to the viewer who chooses to cross the corridor with him, this play, this highway, this beach, this sky.
The photographic work led by Romain Osi for the project « Ilusi » in Bali was conducted as part of his residency, supported by the French Institute of Indonesia / IFI.
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« Ilusi »
« The project offers a dream-like meeting of earth, water, fire, wind and space : the five “elements” which according to Balinese tradition present in all things and human-beings components. Like a photographic mirage, these images invite visitors to discover balance between two different worlds; real and imagination.
Assembled along several traditional boats, images printed in extra large format create a floating photographic island.
Thanks to the rise and fall of the sea the exhibition will come to life, gently animating the printed sails. The experience continues underwater with submerged photographs, the other side of the island, fixed under the boats. » Romain Osi
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Photos et vignette © Romain Osi
