Benoit Paillé

On the road living in his camper since 2013, Benoit Paille is an atypic artist, conscience agitator, creative genius, monstrously curious, absent and edgy. Soon in his life he became surrounded by second-hand smoke and Nicorette patches, which helped him to develop his artistic taste. Stoned on Ritalin for most of his crucial years, he undertook a bio-medical career until he fell into the downfall of photography. Self taught, he still became recognized rapidly in the field which brought him to exhibit his work around the world, but only when people ask for and not the inverse. On the counterpart, his many travels deprived him of any sustainable psychological follow-up which led him into regular crisis.

Far from looking for specific opportunities of creation, it’s in the primal impulse, the instantaneous situations that his images are revealing themselves spontaneously. Using colorful flashes to outline surreal representations “ I often see myself like an hyper realist painter with a 8x10 (but in reality it is a compact camera), my pictures document an anarchist state of mind ”. He want to create a dichotomies between the time of execution and the feeling of super-constructed, although it is as he say ''Anarcho Magical-Realism documentary"

Cultivating a predilection for casual people and territory, kitsch landscapes, frontier and liminal space , he’s seeking the anti- capitalism realism and the magic. “ Everybody can shoot a beautiful scenery or sunset, but I rather be a pataphysician, to apply myself to think about what others don’t ”. Always on the move, he realized a new record by braking more than 3 cameras a year in speed bumps and dirt roads. Even if he consider himself a product of today’s late capitalism realism, he tries to oppose his resistance by acting out against selfies, trends and foremost himself in deconstructi, even if he think he’s the best photographer he knows.

Of a disdainful nature, he yearns to be excluded from any renowned circle. Despite his international recognition, Benoit remains humble and open to others. He has the ability to intrude easily in the authentic life of people to wreck and corrupt their traditional habitat with technology. When children ask him what his THC vaporizer machine is, he lies and tells them it’s an asthma device. Wishing to step apart from institutionalized biographies, Benoit is making a lot of efforts to break through. Ambitious he masturbates only once a day. Either way, he’s putting a lot of energy in transgressing conventions. Art sustain him more than leftovers hot-dogs.