What the eyes don't see | Bangkok Post: Arts & Culture

ART INTERVIEW

It is rather hard for anyone not to stop and stare at the quirky photographs by French artist Philippe Ramette, who appears fully dressed in a suit and tie in every picture of his latest exhibition, posing and defying the laws of gravity, as if he possesses super powers or pulling off a magical trick where he sits serenely underwater or walks horizontally on a tall palm tree.

In Balcony 2 , Philippe Ramette reveals that this picture, taken on the wavy sea of Hong Kong Harbour, was the most challenging in the exhibition.

Famed as a sculptor, Ramette began his series of experimental photography during the late '90s, around the same time his name was beginning to emerge in the French contemporary art scene. His exhibition in Bangkok, ''The Upside Down World of Philippe Ramette'', which runs until April 29 at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, is the first time a collection of his pictures are combined together as one in the same exhibition.