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Gilles’ multidisciplinary process looks beyond disciplines to establish links between narratives, occurrences and parts of the world. Based in Singapore from 1981 to 201, his book Bintan, Phoenix of the Malay Archipelago (2003) deeply influenced his artistic work, which often deals with history and ethnology, while conceptually concerned with the theory of photography. In 2015 he completed a research on Jules Itier and the first photographs of Asia done in the 1840s, and published in 2020 a paper exploring the relations between the histories of photography and that of quantum mechanics. A recipient of the French award Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, his work has been presented in over 60 exhibitions in France and Asia. One of his most recent publications is a selection of Singapore slides from the 1980s-90s in the book Things I remember. In 2013 he held a retrospective of 50 years of art work and research in theory of photography in the Fondation Manuel Rivera Ortiz in Arles.
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