8 week residency
With Mélanie Aleu, Raphaël d'Avera, Nicole Bergeret, Jocelyn Dufour, Jean-Pascal Dutron and his son Cenzo, Yamina Frécaut Martin, Dimitri Jourdan, Elsa Meleck, her parents and her brother, Dorcas Ndebika, Prewa Padabadi, Joris and Pierre-Olivier Palestro, Thais Paranhos Orjollet and his father Julien, Tomasz Putra and his wife, Inalya Raachi and her family, Raphaël Tourre and his sons, Maxime, Roman and their mother Natacha, Milo Winisdoerffer.
Thank you at the Givors sports service, Sport in the city, SO Givors Basket, the Givors Rescuers, SOG judo, SOB Rugby 2 valleys, Taekwondo Givors, Cie Second Souffle, Vernes weight room
Support by the Ministry of Culture within the framework of the Capsule system.
With the support from the gîte An olive tree in the stars.
Stimultania invites the photographer for a period of two months to develop a personal project around the theme of sport, a key issue for the city. The goal is also to reach an audience far removed from the association's usual partners.
The photographer feels the urge to take a different path, to take sport out of its usual settings: fields, stadiums, and gymnasiums. He captures the intimate and omnipresent presence of sport in the daily lives of some residents of Givors. He shows how sport transcends performance to become an integral part of identity, home, and lifestyle. He meets with sports associations, staff, presidents, coaches, and members.
From the outset, Mathias Zwick designed his project based on the famous Panini albums. The player must explore the interiors of the houses and apartments of Givors residents who are passionate about sports and guess who they belong to.
"Sport is not just a physical activity, it's a way of life, a powerful, sometimes overwhelming passion. For children, it's a dream. For adults, it makes them sweat. For older people, it becomes an object of memories. Some live for sport, to the point of decorating their homes in its image: a room in the colors of their favorite team, cups and medals proudly displayed on the shelves, a vast collection of jerseys. To celebrate their passion, others even go so far as to turn it into a veritable museum."
[Mathias Zwick, excerpt from the introductory text of the Intérieur Sport edition]
Drop-off Location
Born in 1990, Mathias Zwick lives and works between Strasbourg, Paris and Germany. After a master's degree in law, he began a career as a lawyer but eventually turned to photography, which he came into contact with through his skateboarding. Omnipresent in this sport in the form of (photographs or video clips made to keep a trace of the figures performed by the skateboarders), photography and video punctuate the photographer's adolescence and thus give him his first subject: the practice of skateboarding in Iran following the Vienna agreements, in 2015. In 2017, he met young Kosovar people from Mitrovica, an emblematic city of the Serbian-Albanian conflict. Around a rock school created in 2008, the photographer tells the story of the slow reconciliation of individuals through music and its influences. Member of the international cooperative Inland Stories and the Hans Lucas agency, Mathias Zwick sometimes works around French news such as during the Yellow Vest movement in 2019. In March 2020, during confinement, he recounts the daily life of workers in the world of party and night. It is regularly published in the French and international press (Le Parisien, Libération, The Independent and Vice).