A collaboration with Villa Albertine and Atlanta Contemporary featuring Villa Albertine’s current Artist in Residence

Doors open at 6pm; Talk begins at 6:30pm
Free event; Registration required

“My photography questions the way environmental and political issues are made tangible in the landscape. Alone, with a partner, or as part of a collective, I complete travel- or immersion-based projects to document shifting territories, in-between spaces, and objects and actions that reveal resistances in the ways in which places are used.

Whether commissioned by local authorities or cultural institutions, created on residencies, or stemming from personal initiatives, my photography series are all pursued as poetic investigations. The encounters with reality that give rise to the images are informed by rigorous documentary preparation. Using the mobility of photography, which simultaneously serves as fact and fiction, I build situated narratives.

In collaboration with associations, collectives, and researchers, I strive to disseminate images beyond the art world, aiming to lend them a place or form of use within public debate so that they can support causes and commitments engaged in caring for or mending our environments.”  — Geoffroy Mathieu

Photo: Colonial Hills, October 2024

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About the artist
A graduate of the French Higher School of Photography (ENSP) in Arles, Geoffroy Mathieu lives and works in Marseille. He presents his works as publications (Actes Sud, Poursuite, Filigranes, Zoème, Wildproject, Building Books), solo or collective exhibitions, and, more recently, walked performances. In 2021, he took part in the fourth edition of Regards du Grand Paris (Ateliers Médicis and the French Centre for Visual Arts). The following year, he won the French National Library’s “Radioscopy of France” Major Photojournalism Commission. In 2023, he co-published a book with Jordi Ballestra, Anti-installation (published by Building Books), with the support of the French Center for Visual Arts (CNAP) publishing grant.

About Villa Albertine
Villa Albertine Artist Residencies create a network for arts and ideas spanning France and the United States. They offers tailor-made residencies for global creators, thinkers, and cultural professionals.