Artists in residence

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.

Abdou Gueye is a Senegalese actor and director. He started in 2007 in the street theater, commonly called the popular theater in Saint-Louis of Senegal. After that, he completed several training courses with directors (Senegalese, Burkinabe, Ivorian, French, and Italian).

In 2013, he created with his peers the theater company Phoenix, of which he is the director. From 2014 to 2017, he toured with his company in about twenty cities in Italy, with the plays: Antigone by Jean Anouilh and La remontée des cendres by Tahar Ben Jelloun, directed by Massimo Luconi. In 2018, he joined the Barouf company in Paris for a professional training course: “Mettre en scène, une traversée du processus de création”, directed by Laurent Leclerc.

In 2021, he is one of the laureates of the French Institute of Paris residency program at the Cité internationale des arts de Paris, to adapt for the theater the novel De purs hommes by Mouhamed Mbougar Sarr, winner of the Goncourt Prize 2021. Self-taught, he also works on improvisation. His creations and his style evolve over the years, being guided by new techniques that he continuously explores.