Artists in residence

Marissa Viani is a Mexican writer, media artist, videographer and filmmaker based between France and Mexico.

After studying literature and philosophy, she began a career in filmmaking and graduated at Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica of Mexico. She furthered her education at L’École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Paris and at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des Arts Contemporains.

In her work dominate the landscapes, the sky and the stars. She is particularly interested in philosophy, anthropology, religion, myths, quantum physics and geometry.

Marissa Viani’s work has been presented in several film festivals and visual art exhibitions in Greece, Syria, Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, Germany, England, Scotland, Sweden, Latvia, Poland, Georgia, Czech Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Russia, Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Cuba, Unites States, Australia, Japan, China, Taiwan, India, Singapore and South Korea.

Chloé Serre’s practice is tinged with an initial background in the human science since she has studied psychology and cognitive sciences.

A graduate of the École Supérieure d’Art et Design de Saint-Etienne, she has developed a sculptural and performative practice that questions the ritual elements inherent in social interactions, intruding into the off-field of communication, where what is not really said is not necessarily invisible. Enriched by regular collaborations with artists from the performing arts, her work has been presented at the DO Disturb festival (2015) and the biennial of young contemporary creation in Mulhouse (2017).

Her first solo exhibition at La BF15 (Lyon), took place in 2018 in parallel with the Biennale de la danse. In 2019, she has participated in the 64th edition of the Salon de Montrouge and has benefited from temporary residencies in Oakland, USA (with RTS Studio and Artistes en Résidences) and at Doc (Paris) within the ARCA-Doc programme.

In 2020, she has been selected by La Galerie centre d’art contemporain de Noisy-le-Sec for a 6-month residency during which she has developed a work around the narrative capacity of games. At the same time, she has presented Comme un parfum d’aventure at the Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, a sculptural performance involving the deployment of ritual idioms of daily mechanics.

Asli Seven is a curator and writer living and working between Paris and Istanbul. Her research focuses on forms of epistemic and infrastructural violence as embodied in the built environment. She is also interested in field practices, critical fiction and co-creative processes.

In 2019, she obtained the Diplôme Supérieure de Recherche Artistique from ENSA Bourges and EESI Poitiers-Angoulême. Since 2014, she collaborates with Arter, Protocinema, Pi Artworks, Galerist and Bilsart in Istanbul and CNAC Magasin, Grenoble and Galerie la Box in Bourges, France. She is a member of AICA and collaborates with Independent Curators International.

“This residency was truly the ideal setting to develop a research and writing project, offering me the quiet and solitude that writing requires, while being surrounded by and in dialogue with artists with a wide variety of practices.“