Curators: Biography

Pierre-Alexandre Mateos (1989) and Charles Teyssou (1988) are a Paris-based writing and curating/duo of curators and writers. Current and planned projects include a public programme at the Pinault Collection - Bourse de Commerce entitled "Paris Orbital", a publication about gay cruising with HEAD - Genève, and the Arles Terminal City (arlesterminalcity.com) archive at the LUMA Foundation (Arles). They recently curated "Anathemata"(Mostyn, Wales), which focused on works by Antonin Artaud, Pierre Guyotat and Sarah Kane, Darja Bajagić's GOREGEOUS at Le Confort Moderne (Poitiers) and co-curated an exhibition about the dandy figure Jacques de Bascher at Treize (Paris) and the Kunsthalle in Berne with Kevin Blinderman. In 2020, in collaboration with Dustin Cauchi and Dasha Zaharova, they launched The Opioid Crisis Lookbook, an online platform and print publication showcasing narcotics culture. In collaboration with Rasmus Myrup and Octave Perrault, they instigated Cruising Pavilion, a series of exhibitions that made connections between sexual dissidence, art and architecture and took place in Venice (at the 16th Biennale of Architecture), New York (at Ludlow 38) and Stockholm (at ArkDes). They are former editors of L'Officiel Art and are regular contributors to Mousse Magazine, Spike, Double magazine and CURA.