Artists in residence

Raymond Gemayel enjoys soaking it (his body) in chlorinated waters and toxic seas. If he would describe his practice in a drawing, and describe this drawing, he would describe a triangle, with angles of language, body and territory. in this triangle, water is floating. 

During his residency at the Cité internationale des arts (first as a laureate of the Visual Arts committees, then of the CAPSULE program), Raymond Gemayel will trace and retrace this triangle.

Charlotte Gemmill is professionally known as Eliott, an Australia songwriter and artist, known for her heartfelt lyrics and soulful vocals. 

Charlotte grew up small town of Cobram, Victoria, Australia. At four-years-old, she was singing, and at 14, she was penning her first original songs on guitar. In 2016, she packed her bags and went to Sydney to stay with family in the Blue Mountains. Here, in this insular, quiet enclave away from the noise of the city, Eliott was able to focus on her craft.  

Eliott’s debut EP, Bold Enough was recorded with her trusted collaborator, Jack Grace who resides in Paris. The EP is filled with songs that deal with the inner turmoil of growing up and trying to find your place in the world. 

In 2019, Eliott sold out a headline tour in Australia, having won fans supporting both Dean Lewis and Matt Corby on national tours, following a European tour with Dean Lewis.

Emerging as one of Australia’s most exciting and talented new artists, Eliott is signed to Island Records Australia and a global publishing deal with Downtown. 

Eliott is currently writing for her debut album, which will be released globally through Island Records in 2020.  

Daniele Genadry works with different media to observe how distance, light and movement affect visual experiences. Her practice revolves around the relationship between painting and photography, and through it, she considers the potential of an image to generate its own temporality (light), and how a mediated field of vision can sensitize our perception.

She lives and works in Lebanon and teaches at the American University of Beirut.

Daniele Genadry studied at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire and the Slade School of Art, London. She has participated in residencies at the Bronx Museum, Anderson Ranch Art Center (USA), Fondazione Ratti (Italy) and Frans Masereel Centrum (Belgium).
In 2013-2014, she was awarded the Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship (Italy, 2019). She has recently exhibited at the Beirut Art Center, MUCEM, Sharjah Biennial 13, Biennial del Sur, Sursock Museum, Gypsum Gallery, Taymour Grahne Gallery, SMBA, Bronx Museum and Fondazione Pastificio Cerere.

Geneviève Alaguiry, from her artist name Genathena, was born in 1986 in Reunion Island. Graduated from a DNSEP at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de La Réunion in 2010 and a Master 2 at the University of Paris 8 in 2011, she developed very early on a research on the human condition which led her to question the societal context of the 21st century, anchored in a commodification of individuals and the world. Far from the “creative and constructive relationship with others. Magnet. Humanity is sick of degrading the social bond and of producing nothing good”[1], she is in perpetual search of this otherness that drops the masks and where the individual is no longer part of an alienating relationship. A relationship in which she contributes to his or her own enslavement.

Vers l’Humain exhibition held at the Pavillon in 2019 – following her residency “Hors les murs” as part of a partnership between the Artothèque de La Réunion and the CNEAI – shows the importance given to the Other in her work. She carries the voice of those who suffer, the invisible ones, where a battered woman and a homeless person become the centre of the exhibition and the debate, which she likes to continually arouse in the public.

In a necessary re-humanisation of the world, she lays the foundations of a research that tends to reveal indefinitely the Human being crushed by games of domination and power, as her exhibitions since 2014: Première expo… et après ? (collective exhibition, 2018), L’Illusion d’un monde (2017), Insalubrisalvia (2016) or Mécanique d’Humanisation (2014).

In 2019, at the invitation of Pascal Lièvre and Julie Crenn as part of the HERstory project, she questions the issues of the artistic milieu and the figure of the contemporary artist.

A multidisciplinary artist, Geneviève Alaguiry navigates between drawing, writing, performance, installation, video/animation, sculpture and photography.

She has taken part in several group exhibitions and carried out residencies in Paris, Mauritius and Reunion Island.

1] Aude-Emmanuelle Hoareau, Doctor of Philosophy, who wrote about the artist in “Problématiques du hasard dans l’art réunionnais”, Recherches en esthétique magazine, n°22, p. 194 to 197.