Pour un monde flou.
Analog photography by Eliott Silhol.
I am a visual artist (painter and photographer) born in 1985 and based in Paris.
For photography, I work with analog 35mm film, without editing (no photoshop, no AI).
My focus is the human figure — the nude body in motion, the portrait — but also nature, dancers, architecture, artworks, and abstract forms.
More than technical perfection or ultra-detailed, edited digital images, I prefer the poetry of analog imperfections: unexpected and vibrating textures. My framing often seeks some degree of abstraction, within an overall figurative approach.
I work with shallow depths of field, merging localised sharp areas within blurred, shifting, almost dreamlike spaces. This use of blur is an aesthetic choice, a way of creating distance from reality to put it in perspective — much like can be done in painting.
At a time when critical thinking and discernment are undermined by propaganda, information bubbles, and when many people are unknowingly manipulated by confirmation bias leading to polarisation and extremism, this choice of blur also carries a political dimension. We must continue to doubt, to listen to perspectives different from our own. This is essential in resisting the unfolding obscurantist forces.
Only doubt is luminous, and doubt is blurry.
Drawing and Painting
My main creative activity is in painting, where I am also inspired by the human figure. In this practice, I work exclusively with life models in the ephemeral energy of their presence, depicting it on cavelike, abstract backgrounds to evoke the original bond between humans and the Earth’s mineral placenta.
Please visit my dedicated site for more information: eliottsilhol.com and on Instagram
