French comic book author. After graduating from the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Strasbourg (France), he still travels regularly to Asia and more precisely to Vietnam where he currently lives. His projects are still linked to his Diary in continuous progress which takes different forms such as comic book, short movie, video installation.
Freddy is one of the laureates of the residency programme Villa Saigon 2019. His graphic novels include Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2017), The Poisoned Hill (2010), and The Flesh of Apples (2006). He has also collaborated with Vietnamese filmmaker Trương Minh Quý on films such as Someone in the Forest (2013), Mars in the Well (2014) and City of Mirrors (2016), and filmmaker Christelle Lheureux on Water Buffalo (2007) and The Earth Leans (2015). Past exhibitions include participation to “Photophobia,” a retrospective of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s cinematographic work, at the Stenersen museum in Oslo and Gallery @KCUA in Kyoto (2013), “The Yellow Room” during Esperantopolis festival in Ho Chi Minh City (2011), and “Spontaneous Generation,” a group show presented at the Angoulême International Comics Festival (2010).