Artists in residence

Born in 1978 in Paris, Dalila Boitaud Mazaudier has been an author and director for the Compagnie Uz et Coutumes for fifteen years. She began her artistic career in Uzeste in 1999 with the artist Bernard Lubat. In 2000, she follows the training of the Groupe Français d’Éducation Nouvelle (GFEN) and becomes a facilitator of writing workshops. She was a member of the Collège des arts de la rue for the Direction Générale de la Création Artistique (DGCA) between 2015 and 2017. She is a member of the jury Écrire pour la rue (SACD / DGCA) in 2020.

Dalila Boitaud Mazaudier is an artist committed to the transmission of the memory of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda through theater plays.

In 2013, she was awarded the “Authors of Public Spaces” grant from the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (SACD) for her work HAGATI YACU / ENTRE NOUS; an urban poem on the war of the sun and melancholy, in memory of the Tutsis in Rwanda. This play, adapted in part from Boubacar Boris Diop Murambi’s novel The Book of Bones, is presented in many cities in France, Benin and Rwanda. 

In 2014, she participates in Kwibuka 20 (the twentieth commemorations of the genocide) at the invitation of the Rwandan government, and stages with Rwandan artists Le Café Littéraire which inaugurates these three months of commemorations. She co-hosts on-site conferences with Boubacar Boris Diop and Koulsy Lamko on the theme of Arts, Commitments, Scenes of Resistance and Truth.

In Rwanda, Dalila Boitaud Mazaudier cooperates with the Ishyo Arts Center, the Ministry of Culture, the National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG), the French Institute, the University of Rwanda and the Ibuka Association around the project entitled Arts Memory and Public Spaces. In this capacity, she partners with many universities in France and contributes to the transmission of the memories of the genocides.

Between 2016 and 2019, she writes and directs many plays on the same subject including SOUK, another history of the Maghreb, YESTERDAY TODAY AND AFTER TOMORROW, EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON THE NUMBER OF COWS.

Dalila Boitaud Mazaudier (France) is in residence at the Cité internationale des arts as part of the “Résidence Parcours” program, organized with the support of the Ministère de la Culture and the DRAC Ile de France.

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Sofia Boito (São Paulo, Brazil, 1987) is an actress, performer and writer.  Interested in artistic creation in a hybrid field – particularly where the boundaries between theatre, performance, visual arts and literature blur.

She seeks to create works where her own body becomes the source of inspiration and often the final medium for her creations. From the perspective of an incarnate subject – where personal flesh and experience are the creative motors – the artist frequently addresses, as a theme, her status as a woman, feminism and the contemporary urban condition. 

Born in 1982, Shima Boka is an Iranian architect and art historian. As a doctoral student, her research focuses on contemporary architecture. She has also been conducting interdisciplinary research in art and sociology for more than fifteen years, the results of which are regularly presented in academic seminars and conferences. She has also contributed to several architectural design and reconstruction projects of historical buildings, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran and the National Museum of Iran.

Her current project focuses on the artistic interactions between Iran and Western countries in the 1960s to 1970s. Her stay at the Cité internationale des arts is an opportunity to study the French influence on the art and architecture of modern Iran by examining documents from private collections and public archives, including those of art faculties that hosted Iranian students in the 1960s and 1970s, and by conducting interviews with artists based in both countries. The goal of this project is to create a coherent narrative around the international atmosphere that contributed to the emergence of modern Iranian art in the 1970s.