Larry Louis Benjamin Defelippi (b. Perth, Australia, 1971)

 

Inside Defelippi’s multifarious photographic practice, he operates with contingency and visual tacticity as he deals with aesthetics and memory through the collaborative relations he constructs between photographer and model.  Set on a photojournalistic pathway after leaving university, a series of mishaps instead found him in Japan where he ended up living for over a decade. He became influenced by the work of post-war Japanese artists Nobuyoshi Araki and Daido Moriyama, and started working primarily with the nude, trying to understand the male gaze and what that meant inside his own praxis and its agenda in a wider social context. This body of work, which includes the monograph Hakanai, is never permissive, and play becomes an integral part of the final composition. Yet this is not furtive play, this is a play with intent working directly with his subject’s agency, much like a private conversation between model and artist. Outside of Australia, his work has been extensively shown throughout Europe and Asia, and is held in numerous private collections.

 

Ben Waters

 

 

 

Selected Exhibitions

 

2003, Hakanai, Gallery Plannet, Nagoya, Japan.

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2004, Hakanai, The Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth, Australia.

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2007, Tōkyō no Monogatari, Gallery 24, Berlin, Germany.

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2008, Heterotopia by the Hour, Gallery Lait, Nagoya, Japan.

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2010, Dodgy3.

​W/ Emmanuel Angelicas, and Max Pam.

Plastic Factory, Nagoya, Japan.

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2011, Beautiful South.

W/ Emmanuel Angelicas, Kevin Balantine, Michael Gray, Max Pam, Jack Pam, Michelle Taylor, Dr. Juha Tolonen, and Toni Wilkinson.

The 8th Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

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2013, The Taxonomy of Desire.

W/ Emmanuel Angelicas, Karen Paulina Biswell, and Max Pam.

Spazio Rita, Nagoya, Japan.

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2014, The Taxonomy of Desire.

W/ Emmanuel Angelicas, Karen Paulina Biswell, and Max Pam.

Fotogalleri Vasli Souza, Malmö, Sweden.

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2016, Contigencia en Colombia, Spectrum Project Space, Perth, Australia. 

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2018, Recordando, Crispeta Galería, Bogotá, Colombia

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2019, Recordando, Centro de Memoria, Paz y Reconciliación, Bogotá, Colombia