Artists in residence

Frederico Câmara is a Brazilian artist and researcher living in Sydney, Australia and born in 1971 in Governador Valadares, Brazil.

His artistic interests are interdisciplinary, reaching into the Environmental Humanities, Cultural / Visual Studies, Visual Anthropology, Postcolonial Studies, Museum / Heritage Studies, Sculpture, Architecture, and Design.

They include the human perceptions and representations of natural and cultural landscapes, photography and travel as research methods, migrations and their influence in the definitions of identity, the practices of collecting and archiving in Art, and oral history.

His projects are site-specific and realized as photographic and video installations, archives, artist’s books, design, and text; presented at conferences, publications, and exhibitions.

His work has taken him around the world on artist residencies, fellowships and exhibitions including the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany; the IRCA International Research Center for the Arts of the KUAD Kyoto University of Art and Design, in Kyoto, Japan; and Pavilion and the Henry Moore Institute, both in Leeds. He is the recipient of various awards, including the Unesco Aschberg Bursary for Artists, the Brasil Arte Contemporânea Award from the São Paulo Biennial Foundation, the Darwin Now Award from the British Council, the Marcantonio Vilaça Award for the Visual Arts, and the Funarte Award for Contemporary Art.

He studied for a PhD Fine Art at the University of Sydney, an MA Fine Art at the University of the Arts London, and a BA Fine Art at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. He has been a visiting lecturer at many universities and Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at the City University of Hong Kong.

Frédérique Barchelard is an architect and artist who works on the notions of the domestic, of doing, of the spontaneous and of the living by articulating buildings, paintings, objects and installations. She has exhibited her works at the Collection Lambert, the Fondation Carmignac and the Arc en rêve architecture center. She has also given lectures in London at the Architectural Association and the London Metropolitan University.

Flavien Menu is an architect with a double degree in Urban Affairs from Sciences Po Paris and the London School of Economics. His work questions the notion of “inhabiting” through research, discussions, texts and project development. His first book, New Commons for Europe, proposes a European overview of spontaneously initiated projects to develop new commons. Flavien Menu has taught at the London Architectural Association and given lectures at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Tate Modern, and the Architectural Association.

The two architects work together on the concept of “living”. The first chapter of this project, Habiter ensemble (Living Together), was initiated at the Architectural Association in London and resulted in the book New Commons for Europe by Flavien Menu. Its second part, developed at the Villa Medici, where the two architects were residents between 2019 and 2020, proposes a reflection on how to inhabit the present. It lead to the presentation of an exhibition at the Arc en Rêve architecture center, the Collection Lambert and the Villa Médicis. From this project was also born the Proto-Habitat, a prototype of a modular house at scale 1, as well as a second book project. The third chapter of this project, entitled Habiter le monde (Living in the world), will be developed within the Cité internationale des arts and will open the reflection on forms of habitability that go beyond anthropocentrism.