The interior volume
Far from formulating problems in terms of interiority, yet influenced by conceptual approaches, Thomas Clerc, a writer and essayist, and Didier Fiuza Faustino, an artist and architect, redefine or invent practical and utopian forms of life both individual and collective.
BIOGRAPHIES
Thomas CLERC
Thomas Clerc is a writer and essayist. He is the author of three dazzling books, Paris, musée du XXIe siècle. Le 10e arrondissement (2007), L’Homme qui tua Roland Barthes (2010), which was awarded the Grand Prix de l’Académie française for short stories, and Intérieur (2013). Published by L’Arbalète/Gallimard, these texts inscribe conceptual literature in a larger, more subtle domain. Clerc is also the author of an essay on Maurice Sachs, Maurice Sachs, le désoeuvré (Allia, 2005) and served as the editor for Roland Barthes’s course at the Collège de France on the “Neutral” (Seuil, 2002) and, more recently, for the first volume of Guillaume Dustan’s complete works (P.O.L., 2013). An assistant professor at Université Paris 10, Thomas Clerc also gives reading performances and is involved in collaborative projects with many artists.
Didier FAUSTINO
An architect by training, Didier Fiuza Faustino has developed a protean body of work that brings together architecture, installation, performance and video. Exploring the boundaries between public and private space, he questions the perceptual, social and political dimensions of the body. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale of architecture as well as in many museums and institutions in France and abroad. His latest personal exhibitions include “Don’t Trust Architects,” Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 2010; “Le Meilleur des Mondes,” Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Paris, 2011; “The Wild Things,” Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, 2011; “Future will be a remake,” HEAD, Geneva, 2012; and “Memories of Tomorrow,” Transpalette, Bourges, 2013. He recently curated “Unattained Lanscape” with Akiko Miyake and Angela Vettese for the Japan Foundation and Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice (2013) and “Evento” (2009, Bordeaux). Fiuza Faustino was also in charge of the scenography for the exhibition “Rodin, la Chair, le Marbre,” at the Rodin Museum (2012, Paris). Back in 2002, he founded the Bureau des Mésarchitectures, whose activities take place in Paris and Lisbon.