Artists in residence

PERFORMING ARTS

DANCE

After studying film and photography at Thammasat University, Thanapol Virulhakul began to be involved in conceptual dance performances as a dancer, choreographer and director. In his various projects, he attempts to question human perceptions of themselves and the world.

Since 2013, he has been co-artistic director of the Democrazy Theatre Studio in Bangkok. Recent works include Hipster the King (2014), which received three awards from the Thai Centre of the International Association of Theatre Critics and toured Germany and Japan, Girl X (2015), a collaboration with Suguru Yamamamoto (Japan), and Happy Hunting Ground (2016), a co-production with Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (Germany).

He is still working on how the body in a work of art can create political tensions between people. He uses specific circumstances and models in various forms as a choreographic approach to challenge the personal mythology of spectators formed by different contexts and models embodied in everyday life.

In 2018, Charlotte Vitaioli was awarded a scholarship from the French Institute to study weaving and dyeing skills in Japan, and was invited by the French Embassy in Australia as part of a research project on Aboriginal dance. From these experiences will be born Le Ballet Tribalesque, a series of eclectic alive paintings, performed by dancers dressed in painted costumes, manipulating sets and objects

In parallel to her teaching at the European School of Art in Brittany, she studies the parties and meals given by artists in art history and works on the staging of a “banquet-exposition”. “In search of a state of joy” to put it in the words of Rudolph Von Laban.

“If I had to propose an artistic godmother to Charlotte Vitaioli, I would gladly choose Sophie Taeuber-Arp, although she was more adept at abstract expressions than her goddaughter, who, without denying geometric compositions, explores a multiplicity of representations inspired by reality. But both enter in total complicity when they grant each other the complete freedom to constantly move their practice. Moving from drawing to felt pen to object, from installation to weaving, from painting to embroidery, from carpet to costume … they transgress the hierarchy of academic categories, such as techniques and boundaries between decorative arts, applied arts and fine arts …”

– Text by Jacques Py for the exhibition Garderas-tu cet éclat of the Fondation Zervos

Born in Brazil, Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro lives and works on planet Earth. Through photography, video, dance, painting and installations, her practice explores healing in the existential and corporeal fields, and the reterritorialization of the body and the spaces in which it circulates and inhabits.

In his multi-disciplinary practice, Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro investigates the mystery between life and death, and ways of navigating between these existential zones. His work has been shown in numerous institutions, including the 35th São Paulo Biennale (Brazil, 2023), Serpentine (UK, 2023), Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas (USA, 2022), Kunsthalle Wien (Austria, 2021) and the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (Germany, 2020).