Artists in residence

Kathleen Ritter is a Canadian/Irish visual artist, writer, researcher, and curator whose interdisciplinary practice spans photography, drawing, sound, video, and text. Her work critically engages with alternate and overlooked histories, focusing on systems of power, language, and technology, and how these structures shape collective memory and contemporary experience. Born in Canada of settler Anglo-Irish and German descent, Ritter lived and worked for years on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm, Skwxwú7mesh and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh peoples, where she was active as an artist and cultural organizer. Her work has been exhibited widely in Canada and internationally. In 2020, her public artwork Gaslight was installed in downtown Vancouver. She is currently based in Paris.

Sarah Ritter is a photographic artist. Her working method is heuristic. She works through an accumulation of images that gradually find their order and associative logic over time. The process is lengthy, allowing the photographs to mature and form either formal or metaphorical pairings. She chose photography after studying philosophy, a background from which she has since collaborated several times with Jean-Luc Nancy.

She notably published a monograph with Loco Editions in 2019 titled The Night Cracks Beneath Our Fingers, accompanied by a play written by Christophe Fiat. Her work is included in several public collections (FRAC Auvergne, FRAC Franche-Comté, FNAC, Fonds d’art contemporain de Besançon). It has been exhibited in France (Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France, Mulhouse Biennale) and abroad (Finland, Germany, Quebec, Mexico, Argentina).

She was awarded the research program of the Institut pour la Photographie in Lille in 2021, and in 2022 she was selected for the national commission “Radioscopie de la France,” directed by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Recently, she has exhibited her work at the Archives Nationales du Monde du Travail and the Nicéphore Niépce Museum, and co-edited a collective publication with Loco Editions entitled Wild Rumors, Moby-Dick, Detroit, and Other Stories.