Artists in residence

Born to a Dominican mother and a Guadeloupean father, Ronald Cyrille spent his childhood on the island of Dominica, immersing himself in its landscapes, places and way of life. A few years later, when he arrived in Guadeloupe, his second home, the practice of drawing was born in the form of illustrations, comic strips and various representations of popular cartoon characters.

After a general secondary education, he graduated from the Campus Caribéens des Arts in Martinique with a Master’s degree in plastic arts in 2012, before going on to win numerous awards for young talent and presenting his work in numerous group and solo exhibitions here and elsewhere in the world.

For the past fifteen years, his studio practice has been nourished by his growing interest in street art, and he continues to create both in the street and in his studio. Open to the world and rich in its cultures, his desire to travel with his painting outside common spaces is growing. The in-between is always a constant for Ronald, practicing a vandal art while graduating from art school, close to both hip-hop culture and West Indian/Caribbean storytelling.

Culture, for its part, doesn’t have to choose sides. It is in this surreal environment that Ronald proposes a form of free figuration in his work. “It’s a kneaded, genetically modified universe, the marvelous real in everyday life, the minimal unity of a world where the smallest part contains the whole. He recognizes ferocity, tenderness and astonishment. These places of memory then become food for the imagination, leaving him free to speculate on his own obsessions.

Born in Haiti in 1994, Jean D’Amérique is a poet, playwright and artistic director of the Transe Poétique festival in Port-au-Prince. He leads writing workshops, contributes to several literary magazines and gives public readings to give voice to his poetic texts.

He published Petite fleur du ghetto (Atelier Jeudi Soir, 2015; maelstrÖm, 2019), special mention of the René Philoctète Prize and selection for the Poetry Revelation Prize of the Société des Gens de Lettres, then Nul chemin dans la peau que saignante étreinte (Cheyne, 2017), finalist for the Fetkann Prize for poetry and winner of the Vocation Poetry Prize.

In 2018, his play Avilir les ténèbres was a finalist for the RFI Théâtre Prize, and in 2019 he won Texte En Cours and the Visa pour la Création scheme from the Institut Français. It has also been the subject of several readings.

His text Cathédrale des cochons, a finalist for the 2019 RFI Théâtre Prize, was selected by the Third Bureau reading committee and was awarded the Jean Jacques Lerrant Prize at the Journées de Lyon des Auteurs de Théâtre in 2020.

Jean D’Amérique offers us a reading of his text Cathédrale des cochons, published by Théâtrales, as part of Work in progress (everyday)! 

With the support of the Antoine de Galbert Foundation.

A Montreal-based sound artist, composer and improviser, active for nearly thirty years in experimental music, free jazz, noise music and sound art. His work spans performance, installation, research-creation and artistic direction. He has presented his work at numerous festivals and arts centres in Canada, Europe and elsewhere, collaborating with musicians, filmmakers and multidisciplinary artists. He has performed with Evan Parker, Martin Tétreault, Otomo Yoshihide, Robin Fox, Ilpo Väisänen, Mats Gustafsson, and others. His career has been shaped by major influences—Sun Ra, free jazz and the avant-garde. In parallel, he is an independent curator and has been programming the Sound Installations in Public Spaces section of the FIMAV for over fifteen years.