Artists in residence

Lola-Jeanne Cloquell, known as LOLA, is an artist, author, slammer and poet from Martinique. She works in particular on the link between music and words, between tradition and contemporaneity. She won her first Maisons-Laffitte literary prize at the age of 11, then the Académie de Montpellier prize in 2010.

After growing up in Martinique, Lola-Jeanne Cloquell studied two years of literary preparatory classes (hypokhâgne and khâgne) at the Lycée Joffre in Montpellier. She then entered Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence, where she developed a passion for sociology and anthropology. This passion led her to Chilean Patagonia, where she conducted research on the Yagàn, an endangered Amerindian language. After living in Chile, Lola moved to London, where she obtained a Master’s degree in Cultural and Creative Industries from King’s College, then worked in film production. She worked with a number of Northern European directors, including Lars Von Trier, Sergei Loznitsa and Benedikt Erlingsson.

Tremplin artist-in-residence at Tropiques Atrium – Scène nationale de Martinique – for the 2021-2022 season, she created the slam show La tribu des malfinies. The feminine condition and the search for feminist power are at the heart of this concert, a crossroads between slam, music and theatricality. The show was selected and presented at the MASA Festival in Abidjan in 2024.

Lola-Jeanne Cloquell performs in the adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, directed by Yann-Joël Collin in November 2022, and in the play E! Boug-La! directed by Doré Sowlo in June 2022.

In 2023, she co-created the short film ÎLE – Dancing for nature, linking slam, image and dance on the theme of the island coastline in relation to human movements, ecology and feminism. In partnership with the Parc Marin de Martinique, it was selected for the CinéMartinique Festival.

In 2024, Lola co-wrote the tango and slam show Tu Abrazo with Eva Laura Madar, presented at Topiques Atrium – scène nationale de Martinique.

Benedetta Cocco (Cagliari, 1997) completed her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice with Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Mario Airò, and Aron Demetz. In 2024, she collaborated with Anna Maria Maiolino on exhibition setups for the Venice Biennale. She works from her studio at Emeroteca dell’Arte in Venice, partnering with Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation and Musei Civici (MUVE) on cultural events and exhibitions. In May 2025, she exhibited in Artefici del Nostro Tempo, a Venice Architecture Biennale project, and later unveiled her first public monument in Piazza Ferretto, created with local families. Her art explores time, memory, culture, dreams, and interiority, focusing on textile craftsmanship as a source of narratives and dreamlike, organic assemblages of the authentic self, inspired by Sardinian heritage and urban experiences.