Les Matinales inspirées : Eugene Sundelius von Rosen

The Matinales inspirées invite you to start the day differently: one weekday morning, in the intimacy of our reading room, come and meet an artist in residence around a book or a writing project. For this new Matinale, the artist and poet Eugene Sundelius von Rosen presents a work for one voice in collaboration with French actress Marie Levy.

Its starting point is La Ménagerie de verre, a play by Tennessee Williams first staged in 1944, and in particular the character of Laura. Living apart from the world, she devotes much of her time to her collection of small glass animals. During the play, we discover that she does not attend the typing classes her mother has enrolled her in: she turned up only on the first day and then pretends to keep attending. In reality, she spends her days in town, walking, visiting museums and going to the cinema, a kind of theatre within the theatre. Her wanderings and this way of occupying her time can thus be read as a form of performative critique of work and productivity.

Building on this idea, Eugene Sundelius von Rosen imagines a monologue that explores the memory of places and the links between architecture, speech and text. The monologue is performed in French by Marie Levy, in a translation by the Swedish poet and translator Helena Eriksson.

Born in 1991, Eugene Sundelius von Rosen is an artist and poet. His transdisciplinary practice moves between performance, text and image, and explores the boundaries of fiction and its frameworks. He is particularly interested in the relationships between affect and architecture, memory, place and alienation. Spaces and landscapes linked to his life and childhood regularly run through his work, whether as real sites of his works, representations or mere allusions. Trained at the Royal School of Fine Arts in Stockholm and the Stockholm University of the Arts, he published his first poems in 2017. His latest collection, ur altare tastatur (untranslated), was published by Sedan Press in 2026.

Marie Levy is an actress, author and director, trained at the École Régionale d'Acteurs de Cannes et Marseille. Since 2023 and the creation of the Eventually company, she has collaborated with the director and dramatist Samuel Petit.