Resident

Frank Smith
From 11 September to 18 December 2019

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Biography

A “linguistic craftsman”, Frank Smith is a writer, a poet, a video artist and filmmaker living between Paris and Los Angeles. He is represented by the Analix Forever Gallery in Geneva. Frank Smith is also the creator of the Bureau d’investigations poétiques, from which he explores the contemporary connections and disconnections between poetry, politics and image, through books, films, installations, exhibitions and performances. He has published a dozen books so far, including Guantanamo (Les Figues Press, 2014), which was judged the best poetry book of 2014 by the US-based Huffington Post.