Artists in residence

Sylvain Gouraud is a photographer and video artist, born in 1979 and based in Aouste-sur-Sye in the Drôme region. He immerses himself in territories where man organizes his practices in such a way as to negotiate his place among living beings, both human and non-human, working with relevant actors in order to build an accurate representation of complex issues.

His work takes the form of books, encounters, and exhibitions that associate photography, sound and video and has been exhibited in various museums such as the ZKM in Karlsruhe, the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, and the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris. His collaborative practice extends to the territories that he activates, including a psychiatric hospital in Alsace, a prison in the île-de-France region, and rural areas such as Go-Co village in Vietnam or Majastres located in the Alpes de Haute Provence.

He has previously been awarded a grant from the Ateliers Medicis/CNAP program Les regards du grand Paris for his project Un ensemble and has recently completed a short film entitled d’ici, de là that was made during a residency at the Pays-Centre-Ouest-Bretagne as part of the Pompidou Center’s hors les murs program. His photographs feature in the collections of the Cnap, the Frac Alsace, and the Frac Essonne.

Mounir Gouri was born in Annaba, Algeria, in 1985. He is one of a young generation of artists concerned by the social, cultural, and political difficulties that young people of his age face on a daily basis. Born in 1985, he spent his childhood and adolescence in the difficult climate of the civil war.

But Gouri Mounir has worked far from this tragedy, but rather in the news and the socio-political and economic realities that are shaking Algerian society. Interested in new media, he uses drawing, performance, video, photography, and sculpture.

In 2019, he was awarded the special jury prize by the Society of Friends of the I.M.A. “Institut du Monde Arabe”. He has exhibited in Germany, France, England, Spain, Algeria and Italy.

Itamar Gov (*1989) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator. Since 2010 he has been living between Berlin, Paris and Bologna, where he studied cinema, history and literature.

Addressing the intricate relations between history, ideology and aesthetics, Gov’s practice focuses on sculptural and spatial installations alongside graphic and video works, and communicates with various forms of personal, collective and institutional memory. 

Working with a varied set of visual and theoretical tools, the starting point of his projects is an inquiring scepticism towards cultural traditions, conventions and gestures that are considered self-evident. His works are based on an ongoing research and revolve around the intersection of art and politics, highlighting the strong tension between the known and the supposed and challenging a clear border between facts and falsehoods, memory and imagination. Never providing a full and complete picture, Gov invites viewers to engage with the elements of his work and to become part of an inquisitive process. 

Member of the curatorial teams of Documenta 14 (Kassel, Athens), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) and Fondazione Adolfo Pini (Milan), in recent years he has been involved in numerous art and film initiatives, exhibitions, festivals, workshops and publications.