Guillaume Thomas (1990), as a child, wanted to be a magician. They told him “Magic does not exist,” so he armed himself with a still and moving camera to prove the vitality of fairies. His quest has taken him on a journey to document those brave and enchanted souls who are unafraid to express the multiplicity of beings, their infinite selves. Those entities which he describes as “characters”. Trained in photography and video at l’École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, as well as at the School of Visual Arts in New York, he directed his first film Life damages the living in 2021. He is always on the look-out for characters, people reinventing themselves. Exhibited across Paris, his art work exploring the future of beauty, the Queer community and body expression was awarded multiple times through the years. With the visual and sound installation Ad Astra displayed at Le Fresnoy from September to December 2022, he now turns to the stars: how to go from fingerprint to starprint?