Artists in residence

MUSIC
PIANO 

Born in Paris in 1990, pianist Louise Akili is currently studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris. She enjoys playing both as a soloist and as a chamber musician and enjoys the marriage of the arts, being a dancer as well. 

Fedora Akimova is a mixed-media artist whose practice spans installations, video, and sculptural objects. Born in 1987 in Kyiv, she began her creative journey as an illustrator after completing a degree in Printmaking and Graphics. In 2010, she moved to Saint Petersburg to study Theatrical Decoration and Scenography, a discipline that profoundly shaped her artistic vision by integrating diverse techniques and crafts into her work.

Since March 2022, Fedora has been based in Tbilisi (Georgia) and Paris. Before February 24, 2022, her work focused on abstract, plastic experiments exploring philosophical and civilizational themes, often imagining a hypothetical, human-free world as a form of escapism. The full-scale invasion of Ukraine, her subsequent displacement, and the profound upheaval in her personal life prompted her to reexamine her identity and artistic approach. This transformative period led her to develop a new artistic language that engages with political and socially charged themes, reflecting the complexities of the world around her.

Born in London raised in Accra, Akoto’s practice uses still and moving image, performance, sculpture and installation to embrace the fluidity of contemporary visual grammar whilst exploring plurality, (self) perception and the societal implications of ableism, ritual and dance.

Akoto’s exhibitions include the triennial Whitechapel Gallery (United-Kingdom, 2022) and Digital Public Art (United-Kingdom, 2021).

Rebecca Akoun is a French movie director born in 1985 in Paris. In her work, she addresses the question of identity in all its forms. She uses many animation techniques including paper cut-outs and volume animation.

She studied applied arts at the Estienne school and pursued her vocation by going to Jerusalem to study animation at the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design in 2008. She directed her first animated short film Le Loup devenu Berger which was selected in many festivals and released in France with three other short films in the program Le Mulot Menteur. Currently based in Vienna, Austria, she is working on the writing of her first animated series Trois bouts de ficelle which tells the story of three exiles in France during the Second World War.

Rebecca Akoun has been nominated as a jury member at the international film festival for young audiences Ale Kino! in Poland and at the Bratislava Animation Biennale (BAB) in Slovakia. In 2020, she participated in several roundtables on feminist perspectives in Eastern European animation in Minsk, in cooperation with the Tricky Women festival, and in Slovenia at the Stop Trik festival.