Artists in residence

Eve Fowler was born 1964 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fowler lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Fowler is an interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates the problems, possibilities, and ethics of what it means to bear witness to the work, body and life of another. Whether working through a camera’s lens or in paint, installation, sound, or public space, her practice moves in and with the margins: towards what has been unrepresented, ignored, struck from the record.

Her work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art (United-States, 2015) Participant Inc (United States 2016), Dundee Contemporary Art (Scotland, 2018) and Gordon Robichaux Gallery (United-States, 2023). Her work is in the permanent collections of the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

After obtaining a national diploma in fine arts and a higher national diploma in artistic expression in 2015 from ESAAA (Annecy/Alps), he moved to Lyon and received a residency at the LeGrandLarge workshops. He has exhibited in various art venues such as BF15, Kommet in Lyon, Ceysson-Bénétière Gallery in Saint-Etienne, as well as Chapelle XIV and Villa Radet in Paris. In 2019, he participated in residencies at the French Institute and the S.A.C art LAB in Thailand before exhibiting in Chiang Mai and Bangkok. In 2020, he also exhibited in Amsterdam and Tapachula (Mexico).

That same year, he was awarded the Friends of the Institute of Contemporary Art of Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes Prize (2021). In 2021, the city of Sète granted him a studio, and he participated in the CANAL ROYAL project at the Crac de Sète in partnership with Mécènes du Sud. In 2022, he exhibited in various cities such as Marseille and presented the exhibition “Brise, Breath, Breeze” in a duo with Naomi Maury at Mécènes du Sud (curated by Géraldine Gourbe). In 2023, he joined the Brain Space Laboratory at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Villeurbanne. In 2024, he received the Grand Prize for European Ceramics in Brussels and two awards from the LAccolade Foundation – Institut de France and the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris.

FRANCE

VISUAL ARTS

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Deeply rooted in the Caribbean, Arthur Francietta has been researching the vernacular scripts of this part of the world for several years. Following his residency at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique (ANRT, Nancy) in 2018, Arthur Francietta began to question the graphic phenomenon that precedes the invention of script. Very quickly confronted with the omnipresence of the Latin alphabetic system, he directed his research towards graphic systems: Anaforuana in Cuba, Vévé in Haiti, and Amerindian petroglyphs still visible today.

It is through these writings that he notes the resurgence of graphics (visual representation of a sign, a letter or a word), myths and rites from several West African and Central American civilizations. The artist’s travels, journeys, encounters and cultural interactions have led to the invention of new graphic forms and to the adoption of a complex contemporary culture: that of the Whole World.

Through the so-called asemic writing (devoid of semantic content, of meaning), Arthur Francietta generates a personal pictorial writing at the crossroads of language and medium.

The asemic approach can be considered as an imitation-creation based on the graphies/writings that have existed in the Caribbean. Arthur Francietta gives us a series of complex and enigmatic symbols. A graphic and poetic divination.

He currently lives and works in Martinique.