Resident

Sylvain Maestraggi
From 6 February to 11 March 2019

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Biography

Born in 1974, Sylvain Maestraggi studied philosophy and directed Histoires nées de la solitude (2009), a film inspired by texts by Walter Benjamin. He also published two books of photographs: Marseille, fragments d’une ville (2013) and Waldersbach (2014). In 2016, he co-wrote with Christine Breton Mais de quoi ont-ils eu si peur? for which he translated texts by Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch and Siegfried Kracauer. He is also a member of the hiking group “Le Voyage métropolitain”.