Mattia Listowski

Mattia Listowski(b. 1987, Paris, France) is a French sculptor, draughtsman, and photographer with French, Italian, and Polish origins, coming from a creative family. He lives and works in Paris and Brussels and studied at ESAG Penninghen from 2005 to 2008.

Mattia sculpts narrative architectures in raw concrete, exploring our symbolic relationship to memory and the ruin of ideas. He encapsulates these places with medium-format silver-chamber photographs**, crystallizing an equivocal memory on the surface of concrete. By doing so, he revolutionizes a temporal paradigm by examining our physical relationship to space, in a narrative that intersects personal history, art history, and the history of great civilizations.

His work uses the formal language, techniques, tools, and representations of architecture, exploring matter and light. He combines a conceptual approach, industrial know-how, and craftsmanship to metaphorically expose our dual relationship to the world: the invisibility of being within the global mass, contrasting with our primordial essence as sensitive individuals.

Mattia’s practice involves a romantic dialectic of travel, anthropological and picturesque, set within a universe that constantly balances the ephemerality of light, represented by the notion of events and sensitivity, against the eternity of stone, which symbolizes memory. His work confronts us with our own memory, revealing our singular recollections.

Mattia lives and works in Brussels.

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