Fabien Vallos

Matthew Rana

Matthew Rana is an artist and writer. Recent projects, publications, readings and performances have been presented at SITE Santa Fe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Index – the Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation and Gothenburg's Konsthall. He is a contributor to Art Agenda and Frieze magazines and since 2010 has been a member of the Paris-based group Speech & What Archive. He currently lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden where he is a lecturer in Fine Arts at Valand Academy.

A Constructed World

A Constructed World is the collaborative project of Geoff Lowe and Jacqueline Riva. They have presented solo exhibitions at the Ian Potter Museum the University of Melbourne 2012-13, the CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux 2008, Cneai, Chatou 2008 and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Melbourne 2007. ACW publishing is respon Speech and What Archive newspaper, errors deceits mistakes, SPEECH web magazine and Artfan magazine. They have facilitated workshops for institutions such as Artists Space New York, Serpentine Gallery London, Camberwell College London Institute, Goldsmiths College London, the West Collection SEI Investments Pennsylvania, and Cneai Chatou.

Michele Robecchi

Etienne Bernard

Etienne Bernard is a curator and art critic for magazines such as 02 and Beaux Arts Magazine. He was granted an MA in Aesthetics from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. His academic research focused on documentary American landscape photography. As a freelance curator he has made various projects in contemporary art and graphic design. Since 2007 he has been in charge of a bi-annual exhibition program for the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux and appointed as General Delegate of the International Poster and Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont.

Fabrice Reymond

Marie Gautier

Marie is a recent graduate of Ecole du Louvre, Paris. She has work on the production of numerous exhibition projects with institutions including CAPC musée d'art contemporarine de Bordeaux, MACVAL musée d'art contemporain de Vitry sur Seine, and currently for Nuit Blanche. She has also managed the production of a number of A Constructed World projects in France and abroad.

Anna Hess

Born in 1985 in Paris. She is a graduate of the Fine Arts School, Bordeaux (Ecole des Beaux-Arts).
In 2007, Anna attended Calarts in Los Angeles for one semester.
She was part of the creation of the Café Pompier, a cultural venue, run by the students of the Beaux-Arts, which offers a program of exhibitions, lectures, concerts and events, and worked there for two years.
Printed matter is at the heart of her artistic preoccupations and work and she wishes to continue specialized publishing studies.

Clémence de Montgolfier

Clémence de Montgolfier was born in 1987 in Saumur, France. After studying applied arts she is now completing a three-year program at Angers Fine Art School. She is a member of the research program Living Archives, with the CNEAI (Chatou), and is co-curator of an upcoming collaborative exhibition in Paris and New-York with the American collective POTLUCK.

Sébastien Pluot

Historien et critique d’art, commissaire indépendant.
Vit et travail à Paris. Il écrit sur l’art contemporain et enseigne l’histoire et la théorie des arts à l’Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Art de Angers et à l’université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne.. Auteur-réalisateur de films documentaires et co-directeur de la collection de DVD « Works & Process » (DVD monographiques de Daniel Buren, Fabrice Hybert, James Turrell). Titulaire d’un DEA d’histoire et théorie de l’art à L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Auteur de textes pour différents catalogues dont Include Me out, catalogue de l’exposition Vides une rétrospective, Centre Georges Pompidou / Kunsthalle de Berne, 2009. Landscope – Le paysage et le dessin contemporain, Blackjack éditions, 2009 I would prefer not to, dans les actes du colloque Art Contemporain, Design Contemporain, JRP Ringier /Mamco/Haute école d’art et de design de Genève, 2008.« James Turrell », 2002 et 2005 ; « La toison d’or », 2005 ; « tercera estació » 2006 « Prêts à prêter », le catalogue des acquisitions du FRAC PACA, 2000-2005. « Mind Contrôl(ed) » revue Trouble n°6 (été 2006, p. 66-96).
Avec Dean Inkster, il prépare actuellement une exposition à la Villa Arson (Février-Mai 2010) ainsi qu’une publication et une exposition sur l’artiste américain Christopher D’Arcangelo prévue pour le Centre d’art Montehermoso, le Cneai et le Van Abbe Museum de Eindhoven (Pays-Bas).
Il développe, avec Raphael Zarka, un programme de recherche, d’exposition et de publication sur certains usages du document et de l’archive dans l’art contemporain. Living Archives se développe à l’ESBA d’Angers et au San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) avec Renée Green.