In the studio with Fanette Lambey

Being awarded this residency is a great boost for my work and research, and for the people who support it, nurture it, and enable me to pursue it.

Being at the Cité internationale des arts also means moving into a new environment, a privileged setting for meeting artists and art workers, and welcoming them into a space where we can discuss our projects. This studio is a kind of laboratory that I’m trying to make as collective as possible, which is a central focus of my work.

Since my arrival at the Cité internationale des arts, I’ve been able to take part in the “Relâcher la paupière” exhibition, to which I was invited by the curator and head of the centre, Alessandra Prandin, at the CAP St Fons, alongside four other artists.

I also collaborated with the artist Chloé Liberman on a series of pieces, one of which was shown at the ‘Unlocked’ exhibition at the Silly studios in Marseille during the PAC OFF.

It seems to me that since my arrival, it’s essentially been encounters, which, although intangible, have been central to my work, as they allow me to think about projects, and to keep thinking about ways of making art.

Mice in Between is a collaborative project with graphic designers and artists Clara Degay, Charlotte Carletto, and Clara Lemercier. It’s a platform that brings together artists and writers around a number of writing, rewriting, and translation protocols. These protocols focus on, but are not limited to, the difficulty of finding one’s place and legitimacy in language. They are presented as tools for developing a new language by embodying and/or pirating hegemonic discourses.

This platform is particularly important because its creation responds to a personal need linked to our respective practices, and follows on from our research by inviting others to invest in and experiment with these issues.

For me, it’s once again a kind of laboratory space. At the same time, I’m preparing a group exhibition that represents a new stage in my thinking and production around these same questions of language and appropriation, this time in particular in the field of ‘Marketingmilitant’. I’ve chosen to bring together a number of artists and friends who address these issues in different ways within their practice, and to work with them to propose forms of theoretical and formal collaboration. It’s an exhibition that I’m very keen to be able to produce as part of this residency.’