8 week residency
from April 1 to 21
from May 19 to June 23
Artist residency supported by the Ministry of Culture within the framework of the Capsule system.
With the support from the gîte An olive tree in the stars.
After a first artist/public creation carried out last November, Mathias Zwick returned to Givors in April for the start of his 5-star creation residency. Stimultania invites the photographer for a period of two months to develop personal work around the theme of sport. During his first phase of creation, Mathias Zwick set out to meet the inhabitants of Givors to question their relationship to sport.
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).