Artists in residence

Berglind Erna Tryggvadóttir (1993) is a visual artist and writer based in Reykjavík, Iceland. She studied Fine Arts at the Iceland Art Academy, Piet Zwart Institute and École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris Cergy. She also has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Iceland.

Berglind works with various mediums, tells stories through objects, images, text and performances. She explores the everyday with excitement, often looking at the emotional connections between people, objects and places. Berglind Erna has taken part in several exhibitions, had a couple of solo exhibitions, in Iceland and elsewhere. She has stayed in residencies at Budapest Gallery, Artistes-en-Residence in Clermont-Ferrand and at Serlachius Museum in Mäntta.

Charwei Tsai is interested in spirituality, an interest she manifests through the calligraphic writing of mantras on various, and often living, media: trees, tofu, mushrooms, lotus leaves, etc. In addition to her calligraphic work, Charwei Tsai creates performances as well as documentary and contemplative videos. She is represented by the Mor Charpentier Gallery (Paris).

During her residency at the Cité internationale des arts, the artist will develope son projet Touching the Earth and will create a new issue of her magazine Lovely Daze focusing on art, ecology, technology and science. For the launch of the publication, she will produce a sound performance in collaboration with the musician Stephen O’Malley from Sunn O))) to create a ritual with sounds and vibrations from nature. Her project explores several central questions: how do science and technology help us to reduce our pace? To touch earth? To deconstruct our habit of identifying ourselves as permanent and independent entities?

Ido Asséo Tsarfati (b. 1984) is an architect and researcher specializing in spatial reconstruction and visual analysis. He studied at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris. Between 2018 and 2019, he contributed to investigations at Forensic Architecture, presented at the Turner Prize at Tate Britain. He has participated in several group exhibitions, including at the Laurie Grove Bath Gallery in London and Tel Aviv Museum of Art. In his practice, he explores the intersections of image, memory, and space – currently informed by his work with B’Tselem, an NGO documenting evidence of human rights violations against Palestinians.