Artists in residence

Merilin Talumaa is a curator, art historian and cultural manager from Tallinn. She has graduated from the Department of Art History and Visual Culture at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She is also a graduate of Environmental studies from University of Tartu.

Her practice has evolved around research about artists’ studio and work environments and notions of migration and belonging. Her recent on-going projects include Roots to Routes (since 2020) – a curatorial initiative gathering a community of artists, curators and cultural producers – as well as the books Your Time Is My Time, Mousse Publishing and Roots to Routes, 2023 and Artists’ spaces : 16 studio visits, Estonian Academy of Arts Press, 2017, both of wich she produced in collaboration with Annika Toots. 

Ana Tamayo is a visual artist of Colombian origin, based between France and Colombia. She has a master’s degree in Fine Arts specialising in Contemporary Art and Photography.

Ana Tamayo creates installations from photographs, videos and objects. Her work deals with the subjects of feminism and counter-colonialism. Today Ana Tamayo would like to switch to a more artisanal and messy plastic practice with natural paint and clay objects.

In 2015 she collaborated with the magazine Jef Klak, founded by a collective of social criticism and literary experiments of the same name. She also collaborated with the collective Les Scotcheuses on the collective and artisanal film No ouestern, inspired by the ZAD of Notre Dame de Landes. Ana Tamayo is currently collaborating with the CIPEI (Cercle permanent d’études indépendantes Mex-Br), a platform of counter-pedagogies.

In 2021, she participated in the 65th selection of the Salon de Montrouge and won the “First Publication” prize of the Tribew edition. The Ministries of Culture in France and Colombia have allowed her to benefit from the following grants: “New relationships to capital” in 2016 with C3P, “National circulation grant” in 2019 with Plataforma Caníbal, the residence grant of the city of Saint-Denis at the Maison Jaune and the “Jeunes Estivants” grant with the DRAC of the East in 2021. 

Her work has been the subject of a solo exhibition at the Micro-Centre d’art l’Eprouvette (Antlia, Paris, 2019), and at the Casa Très Patios Contemporary Art Foundation (Oikos, Medellín, 2016). She has also participated in several group exhibitions, notably at the Cité internationale des arts (Attaches, Paris, 2017-2018), at the CAC MMaintenant Synésthésie (Penser la photographie, des images et des formes, Saint-Denis, 2017) with the Diaph 8 collective, at the Mois de la Photo du Grand Paris (Alter, 6b in Saint-Denis, 2017), and at the Off festival of the Rencontres d’Arles in 2017. 

As part of her ongoing project, Constellation Queer, based on feminist science fiction, the artist is interested in setting up collective and collaborative laboratories rooted in the body and the territory (rituals, dance, plant care, food, semi-conscious writing).