Sandra Alvarez de Toledo
Born: 1954
Sandra Alvarez de Toledo conceived the exhibition Fernand Deligny, légendes du radeau with Anaïs Masson and Martín Molina Gola, with the help of Gisèle Durand-Ruiz, Jacques Lin and Marina Vidal-Naquet.
After a short career as a dancer, Sandra Alvarez de Toledo turned towards cinema (production, directing), then towards the history of photography.
She wrote an academic paper on the work of Marc Pataut and another on
that of Walker Evans. With Jean-François Chevrier in 2001, she organised the exhibition Des Territoires at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
In 2005 she founded the publishing house L’Arachnéen, where she was soon joined by Anaïs Masson. She undertook research on Fernand Deligny, a collection of whose works she published, followed by several other books.
The catalogue of L’Arachnéen includes works by Jean- François Chevrier, Catherine Coquio, Thomas Harlan, Anne-Marie Schneider, Chris Marker, Giorgio Agamben, and François Tosquelles.
Between 2012 and 2020, she organised three exhibitions of the maps drawn in Fernand Deligny’s network: one at the São Paulo Art Biennial (Brazil), another at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), and the last at the Centre Pompidou as part of Cinéma du Réel.
L’Arachnéen is currently preparing to publish the writings of filmmaker Chantal Akerman.
