Sébastien Arrighi

Sébastien Arrighi was born in 1992 in Ajaccio, South Corsica.

He lives and works in Aix-en-Provence. Graduated with honors of the Aix-en-Provence Graduate School of Art, he was supported by the DRAC in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region through a cultural grant in 2018. Winner of the Extinction Prize launched by Urbanautica in 2019, he has also been represented by the Sintitulo gallery in Mougins since 2018. He teaches photography at ESAAIX’s public workshops.

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Whether it’s obvious landscapes or enigmatic scenes, Sébastien Arrighi’s images apprehend reality differently. Thus, the strange corporality that is specific to the mist or streaks of the outdoors, makes up the profound and intimate content of his photographs. Tension and desire result in objects, pieces of landscapes, which thought can sometimes express. It’s about anonymous and opaque relations that occur beyond words, without names. Covered and masked relationships. Just like parallel universes that communicate and eventually mingle together, following geological shifts that would have finally disrupted the order or memory of the times.

2019:Correspondence – solo exhibition presented in Fotofever, Paris by the Sintitulo I Silent show, first solo exhibition at the sintitulo gallery I 2018: Camera Camera, international salon of video and contemporary art (sintitulo gallery); Paysage & Virtuel, 13e Rencontres Euro-Méditerranéennes Volubilis, Avignon I 2017 : Supervues, Hotel Burrhus, Vaison-la-Romaine, invited by “La Compagnie, lieu de création” I 2017 : Une femme a accouché d’une sphère, La Compagnie, Marseille I 2016 : Symphonie Urbaine, ESAAix, FBAUP & Image de Ville, Bibliothèque Méjanes, Aix-en-Provence I 2015 : Soigner les formes, 3ème symposium douleur, éthique, et soins palliatifs, centre hospitalier du pays d’Aix I 2015 : La première fois, festival du premier film documentaire, présentation d’un court métrage, Aix-en-Provence I Oops i did it again, Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-provence I 2013 : Eniarof, fête foraine numérique, Aix-en-Provence.

2018-2019: Corsica Luce, creative residence, Nonza

2018: Grant for artistic project, DRAC-PACA

2018: Landscape and The Virtual, 13th Euro-Mediterranean Meetings Volubilis, Avignon

2016: Assistant to the editing-photography workshop at ESAAix

2020 – Contest finalist: “Extinction. The world Without Us” with publication in a collective book and a group exhibition in the USA (2020).

2019 – Urbanautica, Shortlisted at the “Sacred International Photo Contest. The Experience of Beyond.”

2020: Extinction. The World Without Us, a collective book published by Urbanatutica, USA.

2018: Simile, Volubilis editions

2016: “Floraison Particulère”, editions The ESAAix collection

2013: “Les 36 bleus”, editions The ESAAix Collection

2017: DNSEP – magna cum laude, ESAAix (video photography option), Aix-en-Provence.

(Erasmus, grant for editorial policy and photography under the tutelage of Gilbert Fastenaekens, ERG Brussels).

2015: DNAP – magna cum laude, ESAAix (photo-video option), Aix-en-Provence

2012: BTS – product design, ESDAC from Aix-en-Provence.

2009: BACCALAURÉAT – L option Art series, Laetitia Bonaparte High School, Ajaccio.