Artist residency: the 2022 winners

The 10 winners of the^3rd edition of the “Artists’ Residencies” programme have just joined the Cité internationale des arts. Until February 2023, these artists will be able to develop their creations by benefiting from a studio-housing, a living grant, production assistance and artistic and professional support. Congratulations and a good start to the new school year!

Supporting artists of all nationalities and disciplines

In 2020, when the Covid 19 health crisis was hitting the cultural sector hard, we joined forces with the Cité internationale des arts to create a unique residency programme to provide support to artists and professionals.

Artists still need artistic and material support today in order to be able to continue creating. The program offers a balance between personal time, allowing the realization of a project or research, and collective emulation thanks to the anchoring of the 325 residents of the Cité in the heart of the community.

204 applications

7 nationalities

10 winners

7 women

3 men

6 months of residency between September 2022 and February 2023

The 2022 winners

We are pleased to present this new class of 10 artists, who will benefit from tailor-made support, a studio-housing and a living grant for 6 months from September 2022 to February 2023.

Younes Ben Slimane (Tunisia) | Younès Ben Slimane is a Tunisian artist, filmmaker and architect. In 2020, he joined Le Fresnoy – National Studio of Contemporary Arts. His training as an architect has a major influence on his approach as an artist. Working through film, video, drawing and installation, he establishes an ongoing dialogue between architecture and the visual arts, where different mediums coexist and reflect their respective potentialities and limitations. He has participated in several contemporary art events and his films have been selected in international festivals.

Caroline Deodat (France/Mauritius) | Visual Arts Caroline Déodat is an artist and researcher. She holds a PhD in anthropology from the EHESS and was trained at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon as part of the Art post-graduation program. Through films and installations, she explores the spectral dimensions of the moving image in a circulation between fiction and experimental ethnography. From her obsessions with the processes of archiving and alienation, the history and myths of violence, she seeks ways to reconstruct histories and weave genealogies silenced by the convocation of hantological memories, deferred archives and oral images.

Maïra de Oliveira Aggio (Brazil) | After twelve years of living in Europe, artist-researcher Maïra de Oliveira Aggio claims her visceral belonging to the northeastern region of Brazil where she grew up. Graduated as a trapeze artist at the École Supérieure des Arts du Cirque (Brussels) in 2013, after having studied at the Escola Nacional de Circo de Rio de Janeiro, the Universities of Contemporary Dance UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro) and UNICAMP (Campinas, São Paulo), movement and the body have a central place in her personal and professional life. Passionate about transmission, Maïra de Oliveira Aggio has taught circus. Today, Maïra de Oliveira Aggio is writing her first solo show MACACADA , which crosses themes that run through her, such as the counter-colonization of knowledge, ecology, feminism and the performing arts.

Makiko Furuichi (Japan) | Visual arts Born in 1987, Makiko Furuichi lives and works in Nantes. She is a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nantes (2011) and the Kanazawa College of Art in Japan (2009). She develops a pictorial work on different media and experiments with it in installations and sculptures. In 2018, she was awarded the Visual Arts Prize of the City of Nantes. In 2021, she is a laureate of the Ackerman + Fontevraud residency, she paints an immense surface in troglodyte cellars inspired by cave art. She also created a decoration of the bell of the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud.

Célin Jiang (France) | Music As an artist-researcher, Célin Jiang conducts a transdisciplinary, political and infiltrated work: it aims to explore the relationships between the arts, technologies and digital humanities. The decolonial approach to her work is rooted in cyberfeminism. By questioning our perception of identities in a globalized context of transcultural aesthetics, Célin Jiang advocates interoperability and considers hybridization as a sensitive vector of metamorphosis: how does the dissident potential of artistic expressions operate in the “phygital” era of social networks?

Paul Lepetit (France) | Visual Arts Paul Lepetit is a young artist who graduated from the Ecole Supérieure d’Arts et Médias de Caen/Cherbourg. After his studies, he left for Paris to join the ARCA program at DOC! where he benefits from a research and artistic creation workshop ending with a group exhibition: Stone in focus. At the same time, the artist continues, with the OK collective (of which he is one of the founding members), to organize residencies and exhibitions for young graduate artists. It was also at this time that Paul Lepetit, with Lina Hengten, created La Pâte, a weekly music show on radio DUUU*, where the creative process is honored and also questions how the artist (plasticien.ne) develops his universe through the medium of sound.

Jul Maroh (France) | Visual Arts A multidisciplinary artist and transfeminist activist, Jul Maroh tells stories about modern intimacy and its political facets. After studying at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts de St Luc and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, his comic strip Le Bleu est une couleur chaud was published in 2010. This book received various awards and was adapted for the cinema under the title Blue is the Warmest Colour (Palme d’Or at Cannes 2013). Jul Maroh then published Skandalon, Brahms, Corps Sonores, and You brought me the ocean. At the same time, he was a curator at the CAPC in Bordeaux to create the spatial narrative entitled Procession, and also co-founded the feminist collective Bd Egalité.

Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz (France) | Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz grew up in Clichy-sous-bois (93), after a BEP in sales and then a literary baccalaureate, she turned to a theater school. With her sister Marie, they co-wrote Ibiza, and were winners of the Talents en court at the Comedy Club (2016). She then attended writing workshops with the association of screenwriters Séquences7, joined the Equal Opportunities Workshops at La Fémis and then the school’s directing department. She has since co-directed several short films and, solo, commissioned spots and documentaries (including Sencibilités, finalist for the Scam’s Best Institutional Film Award in 2019) as well as Les Mains sales, awarded at the Brest Festival and at Cinébanlieue. Her graduation film Pas l’coeur assez grand began to be broadcast and she shot Deux et plus, a medium-length film co-written with her sister, in August 2022 (France 2 pre-purchase).

Maïmouna Silla (France/Senegal) | Visual Arts Maïmouna Silla is a French multidisciplinary artist of Senegalese origin, born in the east of France in 1997. After a preparatory class for the EMBA in Gennevilliers, she obtained her DNA at the ENSAD in Nancy, then was congratulated for her DNSEP at the Beaux-arts de Nantes. It is mainly through sculpture, video or text that she navigates between the past and the present to reappropriate various stories and bring them to life in our contemporaneity. It features themes such as history, politics, transmission, spirituality, religion and the relationship to memory. Her creative process begins with meticulous research, the exploration of material archives, but also listening to the living stories she collects during her investigations.

Ana Tamayo (France/Colombia) | Visual Arts Of Colombian origin, Ana Tamayo holds a master’s degree in Visual Arts specializing in Contemporary Art and Photography. Her installations based on photographs, videos and objects address the subjects of feminism and counter-colonialism. She has collaborated with the magazine Jef Klak as well as with the collective Les Scotcheuses around the film No ouestern, inspired by the ZAD of Notre Dame de Landes. Ana Tamayo is currently collaborating with CIPEI (Permanent Circle of Independent Studies Mex-Br), a platform for counter-pedagogies. In 2021, she participated in the 65th selection of the Salon de Montrouge and won the “First Publication” prize from the Tribew edition. Her work has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions.

Thank you to the members of the jury!

A commission, composed of qualified personalities, studied all the applications and selected the 2022 winners. In addition to evaluating the candidate’s professional background, the members of the jury paid particular attention to the quality of the project, the need for an artistic residency in Paris, the envisaged work protocol and the contacts already established or desired.

• Marion DESMARES, Head of the Citizen Art France Program of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation
• Vincent GONZALVEZ, Head of the Residency Department at the Cité internationale des arts.
• Céline KOPP, General Manager of the Magasin – Centre national d’art contemporain de Grenoble
• Olivier MARBOEUF, Author, performer, curator and film producer.
• Leyla Claire RABIH, Director, translator and artistic director of Grenier

Photo credits

One: Maurine Tric / Cité internationale des arts.

Winning portraits: courtesy Younès Ben Slimane, Caroline Deodat, Maïra De Oliveira Aggio, Makiko Furuichi, Célin Jiang, Paul Lepetit, Jul Maroh, Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz, Ana Tamayo