Video • Sam Szafran seen by Gregory Buchert

*Gregory Buchert*
© Sam Szafran © Vidéo : Musée de l'Orangerie / Direction du numérique

« Szafran appeared to me through his charcoals as a kind of phenomenon, like an island in the middle of art history and in the middle of a kind of night of art history. This idea that he was always on the fringe or difficult to connect to a current is something that has never left me. »

Gregory Buchert, visual artist and writer, was born in 1983. Fascinated since his adolescence by the work of Sam Szafran, discovered in the pages of an exhibition catalog, he kept a diary of a suburban wandering and his desire for a hypothetical meeting with Szafran in his first novel, « Malakoff » (Gallimard, coll. Verticales, 2020), imagined during a creative residency in the eponymous city.