Fanny Taillandier

Born in 1986, Fanny Taillandier grew up in the Paris suburbs. After studying literature at university, she taught as an associate professor for 10 years in Seine-Saint-Denis, where she lives. She writes columns and urban surveys for various magazines and journals, and regularly collaborates with photographers. She has published three books, Les Confessions du monstre (2013), Les États et empires du lotissement grand siècle (2016) and Par les écrans du monde (2018). She currently works as an urban planner.

 

To discover
In capsule – sound correspondences by Fanny Taillandier :

What if the great texts of the past were to enter into a dialogue with our current situation? This is what these sound bites invite us to do: blind, the writer Fanny Taillandier – currently a resident at Villa Médicis – reads and sends a literary excerpt about solitude, epidemics or confinement to radio producer Chloé Leblond. She combines them with the field recording of her own quarantine, sounds caught on the fly, from her window or during the rare authorized outings. The challenge is to shift the meaning, to give it a different one, by provoking random parallels and fatally anachronistic echoes, or to bring out poetry, humor or emotion.