“When the evening comes, I return home and enter my study. At the threshold, I cast off my peasant?s clothes, filled with dirt and excrement. I then get dressed in splendid court garments and, suitably attired, step into the columned halls of the great ancients. Received by them in friendship, I nourish myself there with food meant for me alone, that for which I was born. There, no shame holds me back from talking to them, asking them why they did certain things; and they condescend to answer me. For four hours, I have no worries. I forget my sorrows, am not afraid of poverty. Death does not scare me. I completely enter their world.”
– Niccolò Machiavelli, Letters to Francesco Vettori
Matthieu Haberard, born 1991 in Toulouse; lives and works in Paris. Recent exhibitions include Insomnia market, ENSBA (Paris, 2016), A Thousand Friends (part 2), New Jörg (Vienna, 2016), Beauloss, Lastresort Gallery, curated by Antoine Donzeaud (Copenhagen, 2016), DOC, Doc, curated by Joey Tang (Paris, 2015), C?est la vie, Occidental temporary, curated by Neil Beloufa (Villejuif, 2015).