Artists in residence

Born in 1974 in Noumea, New Caledonia, Annabel Gueredrat lives and works in Martinique.

She is a choreographer, dancer, performer, researcher, and “bruja”, and is also a practitioner of body-mind centering, a somatic practice that allows her to write feminist, organic (eco/afro) performances, where the intimate and the political are increasingly linked. Annabel Gueredrat’s three major performances, inspired by modern witch figures, are: A freak show for S, Hysteria and I’m a bruja. 

She is co-director with H. Tauliaut, her life partner, of the International Festival of Performance Art (@FIAP Martinique). Together they have created 4 performative worlds: aqua, iguana, afropunk and technochaman, as well as the performance art laboratories, which take place every two months since 2017. They practice their performances in the middle of nature with other artists at the savane des petrifications in the extreme south of Martinique. In parallel to her creation, she has always led dance actions in the midst of prostitution, prison, education, medical and socio-humanitarian.

Today she works at s.o.s maternité and Kap Caraïbes for the LGBTQI community. Finally, in 2012, she opened a new project around black feminism by creating the trio Women, part two: you might think I’m crazy but I’m serious, with Ghyslaine Gau and Ana Pi. Her questions were about the political body and the social posture of Black and Mixed race women on the stage. In 2021, a continuation of this trio is planned: WOMEN, PART3, with Ghyslaine Gau and Ana Pi in the form of a performative exhibition to empower other women of the community.

Valentina Guerrero Marín’s artistic practice is articulated around the ideas of monstrosity, the Capitalocene, what is hegemonically understood as nature, and the socio-cultural projections attributed to certain elements and bodies, including the landscape. Using drawings, installations, videos, writing, and glass work, she elaborates narratives that speculate on uncertain futures, intertwining historical facts, personal experiences, mythological worlds, and post-natural omens.

Currently, her practice focuses on writing and the production of glass pieces that are activated in collective cloud-watching exercises. These optical and textual artifacts seek to speculate on how the sky and clouds can be a monstrous imprint of the Capitalocene and climate colonialism by creating narratives that intertwine personal memories with large-scale historical events.

Embracing shifts in perception of light, material, and movement, Nadia Guerroui weaves a subtle intimacy with what is imperceptible and evanescent. She imagines new spaces, conditions, and registers for (re-)encountering and attuning ourselves to the (in-)visible environment which surrounds us. Her refined inquiries into physical phenomena carry an openness to beautiful accidents and sensory drift. This poetics of attention moves across a wide range of media, thinking with the fovea or phosphenes among other and ever-expanding sites of perceptual experience. Distinct from currents that harness and steer the gaze, her practice invites rigorous, attentive engagement, deliberately resisting the spectacular and the instant consumption of images and sensations.

Henri Guette is an art critic, member of the AICA, and exhibition curator. Through his different statuses, he wants above all to be a passer and a network leader.

He came to contemporary art through an interest in contemporary poetry, and more specifically in Charles Pennequin’s relationship to performance art. He works through the prism of literature, paying particular attention to language and narratives.

A graduate of the Sorbonne’s Master’s degree in “Contemporary Art and its Exhibition”, he is developing a research project on the links between art and literature, which he presents in writing or through his voice with the Jeunes Critiques d’art collective or the program En Pleines Formes.

He has held various positions as a cultural project manager for the University of Lille, where he coordinated artistic residencies and part of the programming. Today he is developing his activity as an exhibition curator within the Fernrohr association, working on the adaptation of a cycle of Jules Verne novels, including Le Rayon vert, which allows him to use fiction as a space for encounters.