Artists in residence

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PERFORMANCE & INSTALLATION

Mattia Tosti (Rome, 1993) is an Italian-Brazilian curator and writer. His curatorial practice is often artist-led, resulting in projects that diverge rather than follow a single line of research. Nevertheless, a recurring thread in his work is his conception of the exhibition as a medium in its own right, leading him to develop research-based, site-responsive projects that favour interdisciplinary collaborations and hybrid formats.

His professional career includes experience in museums such as MAC São Paulo and MAAT in Lisbon, as well as in contemporary art galleries, notably as director of Monitor Lisbon (2020–2024). As an independent curator, he has designed exhibitions and screenings for institutional, commercial and unconventional contexts. His writings have been published in academic journals such as Routledge and De Gruyter, as well as in contemporary art magazines such as Flash Art International, Contemporânea and Umbigo. He has also written for various institutions, including CAM Gulbenkian, FRAC Bretagne and MNAC in Lisbon.

Cléo Totti (1989) is an artist based in Liège (BE). She works with a wide range of materials, mediums and techniques: with sculpture and performance. Her main motif is the human body, which is fragmented, distorted and transformed into pictorial objects. Alternating between fluid and solid, her work signals a fluidity and hybridity of both synthetic and natural bodies. She obtained her Master in Visual Arts at the ERG (School of Graphic Research), Brussels (2015). She has been nominated for the Friends of S.M.A.K. – Coming People (2016) and Prix de la Jeune Sculpture of the Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles (2020).

Her recent exhibitions include Phantoms & Emotional Ornaments, Les Brasseurs (2024), Liège (BE) ; Narcosis, Le Botanique (2024), Brussels (BE); De Bauxite, de carbone et de fer… A chemical Anthology, Avee Gallery, Kortrijk (BE); Stone/Image/Projection curated by Sam Steverlynck & Dom Wood, The Agprognostic Temple (2023), Chapelle de Boendael, Brussels (BE); Rooms of Resonance curated by Chantal Pattyn and Bénédicte Goessaert, Cloud Seven (2023) – Collection Frédéric de Goldschmidt, Brussels (BE); Art Week Rotterdam, Neck of the Woods, Rotterdam (NL); Allez, Allez!, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (2022), Paris (FR); Fragile, El Gallery (2021), Welle (BE); Fearless, Market Gallery, Glasgow (2019); Mechanical Lyricism, BPS22, Charleroi; Elite 18, KRIEG, Hasselt; Resistance, CENTRALE d’art contemporain, Brussels (all 2018).

She has taken part in national and international residencies such as Centre culturel de l’Abbaye de Neimenster (2024), Luxembourg, (LU); Morpho (2020), Anvers, (BE); 2019: Ravi (2019), Liège (BE); Arscape with Stijn Maes (2016-2017), Siena (IT), Summer research residency (2015), Tinos (GR)…