Thierry Facon is a French visual artist born in 1961. He left France in 1985 to pursue a career at the United Nations. which took him to four continents where he was exposed to rich and varied artistic and cultural traditions. and that he left in 2016 to focus on his artistic pursuits. He has been based in Bangkok since 1999.
Thierry Facon has been practicing abstract and experimental urban photography since his youth, aiming to make contemporary cities more livable and to discover clues to a secret and underground life that is trying to survive there. Recently, he has been creating composite images in which he humorously explores contemporary issues such as the digital world in which we are immersed and the place occupied by the artist in it, the ideological and societal currents that affect us, and politics. His images are large frescoes populated by his works, objects that surround him, and avatars that may or may not represent him. Their aesthetics can be summed up by this statement of Witold Gombrowicz: "transporting the most up-to-date contraband on old-fashioned benchcarts, that's what I like."