Artists in residence

VISUAL ARTS

INSTALLATION

“My two most recent installations, Driven From Their Homes and Arrival: The Rohingya, are anti-war travels and stories and a call to mercy.

My work is a hybrid of installation sculpture and illusionist staging. The wonder of the installation sculpture is that it surrounds the viewer. I try to place the viewer in a series of scenes, so that he/she can travel with these refugees for a few moments. What interests me above all is accessibility. I try to express urgency and immediacy. I fervently hope that if I tell this story in sculpture, which is so tangible, it will become more present and more real for us. If we face the terrible truth of war, we may find a way to stop it.

I have exhibited bronze pieces at Brookgreen Garden in South Carolina, the National Sculpture Society in New York and the National Arts Club in New York. I have installed life-size stages at Norfolk International Airport and the Fitchburg Museum, Berkshire Museum, Springfield Museum, and Chesterwood, National Trust in Massachusetts. Recently, I set up my work at the Westport Art Center in Connecticut and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center in Cape Cod.”

Diamond Stingily was born in 1990 in Chicago, Illinois. She lives and works in New York City. Her work explores social class, race and gender and is infused with the deeply personal, incorporating references to her family and her own childhood.

Her work has been presented in numerous institutions including Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA, 2022), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (Liechtenstein, 2022), Kunstverein Munich (Germany, 2019), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (USA, 2019), Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Florida, USA (2018).

During her residency, Diamond Stingily will examine the manuscript of a novel inspired by Antonin Artaud’s muse, the author and actress Colette Thomas, who wrote Le testament de la fille morte (1954) under the pseudonym René. Diamond Stingily will also explore the work of American authors who lived and died in France, such as James Baldwin and Richard Wright, and will produce new sculptures and videos inspired by his research and poems.

Born in Italy, Binta Diaw lives and works in Milan.

Often taking the form of installations of varying dimensions, Binta Diaw’s research engages a philosophical reflection on the social phenomena that define our contemporary world, such as migration, the sense of belonging and gender issues. Earth, chalk, rope, synthetic hair and rolled flags

Earth, chalk, rope, synthetic hair and rolled flags are some of the materials that recur frequently in the artist’s practice. In her work, Binta Diaw attaches great importance to physical and sensory experience. Her recent exhibitions include: Liverpool Biennial (UK, 2023), 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (Germany, 2022), Centrale Fies (Italy, 2022), 13th Rencontre de Bamako (Mali, 2021-2022), Young Artists Biennale (San Marino, 2021). 

During her residency, Binta Diaw will continue her work on the major clandestine migratory movements from Africa to Europe. Developed in the form of a video, her project reverses the gaze : it will focus on the point of departure of migrations, rather than their point of arrival. Based on this research, Binta Diaw will create an installation combining this video with carpets, earth and plant fibres from Senegal.

The project will be nutered by meetings with people from so-called ‘immigrant backgrounds’ and discussions about their relations to identity, roots, origins and travel.