Artists in residence

Mathilde Soares-Pereira is a director, writer and multidisciplinary artist of Franco-Portuguese origin. 
She is a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Conservatoire d’art dramatique des Halles (WA Mozart).

Mathilde makes her life her work, using every possible medium: installations, photographs, stories, videos and films. Her personal experiences are the starting point for her work. She frequents different social milieus, which she explores with the desire to lift the veils over appearances and taboos, to bring to light the human side hidden within. She also exposes controversy, but always far from stereotypes and stigmas.

Her explorations bring her face to face with themes that echo topical, societal, political, economic and sociological issues. She refers her work to the Bourdieusian theory that structures social space. 

She hijacks the most subversive subjects, making them funny and offbeat, leaving room for a certain kind of lightness in a wacky, pop and baroque aesthetic. In her investigations, Mathilde questions and highlights the dysfunctions of male-female relations and the games of domination that operate within them. She is interested in fantasies and plays with clichés and gender stereotypes in a never-ending battle against our patriarchal society. 

The artist transports us into worlds such as the supermarket, squats, the rural environment, trance-cognition, passing through the world of the automobile, motocross to that of the night with its vertigo and ghosts. Mathilde is currently exploring the world of sex workers as a stripper. She shows us what goes on behind the scenes, with a view to destigmatizing the milieu.

Mathilde was awarded the Prix Thaddaeus Ropac in 2019 and the Prix Canson in 2015. Her work, and in particular her films, have been shown in Tokyo, Brussels, London, New York and Paris. She received support from the CNC to develop her new film “a sacred flower”, set in Burgundy in the world of motocross.

Born in Poland, Mikołaj Sobczak lives and works in Amsterdam.

Mikołaj Sobczak works with paintings and video, often including collaborative performative actions. In his work, Sobczak is focused on political issues and historical policy.

Emphasizing the perspective and life of marginalized subjects, he builds narratives, and tracks down the reasons for current global and social issues. Recent exhibitions include Ludwig Forum Aachen (Germany, 2023), Kunsthalle Muenster (Germany, 2022-2023), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Germany, 2021), MUDAM (Luxembourg 2021), Museum of Modern Art (Poland, 2020).  

During his residency, Mikołaj Sobczak wants to treat gossips, sketches and paintings as a basis for a script, a series of paintings to read.

Between two wars, two men decided to live together in Paris. Józef Czapski – a Polish painter, looking for the latest trends in art, soon a national hero, a survivor of the Soviet mass murder of Polish intelligentsia in Katyń – fell in love with a Russian – Sergey Nabokov. In a letter to his mother, the poet confessed that he converted from Orthodoxy to Catholicism under the influence of this romance.

He did what 10,000 Ukrainian peasants, whom the Polish government then forcibly converted to Catholicism inspired by Western colonial policy. Cocteau and Picasso gossiped about their romance.