弗朗西斯·奥肖内西的研究核心，是通过肖像与风景的双重视角来构建“生活的勇气”。他致力于通过营造场景来创造对话，这些场景扎根于视觉装置的世界。近期，他将注意力转向“内在风景”与“时间的流逝”——这些塑造我们身份的重要元素——并在艺术实践中不断深化这一概念。湿版火棉胶是一种原始的黑白摄影工艺，能够在铝板上制成影像。作品的生成依赖风箱相机，并在暗房中经过多重操作。对弗朗西斯·奥肖内西而言，这一媒介成为实验的空间——在其中他构建出如梦似幻的画面，不是为了捕捉“他所想的”，而是为了理解“他为何这样想”。

Francis O’Shaughnessy centers his research on constructing the audacity to live through the dual lens of portrait and landscape. He seeks to create dialogues by orchestrating scenes rooted in the world of visual installations. Recently, he has been turning his attention to interior landscapes and the passage of time—elements that shape who we are—deepening this concept within his artistic practice. Wet collodion is a primitive black-and-white photographic process that allows for prints to be made on aluminum plates. The creation of an image involves the use of a bellows camera followed by various manipulations in the darkroom. For Francis O’Shaughnessy, this medium becomes a space for experimentation—where he constructs dreamlike tableaux not to capture what he thinks, but to understand what he thinks.

弗朗西斯·奥肖纳西具有老挝血统，是一位居住在魁北克的艺术家兼研究者，从事摄影与行为艺术创作。他的艺术实践扎根于风景中的肖像探索，其不断（重新）追问的作品群体，讲述着关于人类的主题：他们的爱、他们的梦想、他们对意义的追寻以及他们的“移植身份”。他的作品曾在全球 30 个国家展出，足迹遍及魁北克美术馆、克拉科夫当代艺术博物馆（波兰）、塞尔维亚国际艺术双年展（葡萄牙）以及世界文化博物馆（瑞典）。2021 年，他荣获卢森堡艺术奖。他拥有魁北克大学蒙特利尔分校（UQAM）艺术研究与实践博士学位。
Of Laotian origin, Francis O’Shaughnessy is a Quebec artist-researcher who works in photography and performance. His work is anchored in the exploration of portraiture in landscape. His constantly (re)questioning body of work speaks about humans: their loves, their dreams, the quest for meaning and their adoptive identity.
His creations were presented in 30 countries. He has exhibited at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Quebec, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (Poland), at the Cerveira International Art Biennial (Portugal) and the Museum of World Culture (Sweden). In 2021, he won the Luxembourg Art Prize. He holds a doctorate in arts studies and practices from UQAM.