Artists in residence

INTERVIEW

An anecdote about your residency at the Cité internationale des arts?

“There are so many, but none that can’t be shared without making waves.”

You are participating in the 58th Biennale di Venezia, how did your residence at the Cité allow the construction of your project presented there?

“Time to raise thoughts and consider this project. Space to create new works, especially marble inlays that force me to work outside, which the Montmartre site offers. Then a chance meeting with Jacob Wiener, a resident of the Cité, who, through his energy and knowledge, encouraged and supported me to make my first 16mm film “Gondola Spinning” which I present here in Venice.”

BIOGRAPHY

Alice Guittard is a French artist born in 1986. Preferring to the tangible results of imaginary solutions and to the roads all marked out their paths, Alice Guittard analyses her relationship to time, the viewer and the collective memory.

Her work always has as its starting point a literary reference and questions the notion of exhibition by revealing the background of creation and production. For her, exhibition rhymes with expedition. Her desire to push the limits of the exhibition by inventing each time another format, another language is for her a way to give rise to surprising analogies in the observer. Persisting daily in creating evidence of a crime that did not happen, she offers us what is there before our eyes and that no one sees. The forms are offered to her and she takes care of assigning them a new destiny, like the toys of a mad god. 

During the Venice Biennale and the month of French culture in Cuba at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Havana, Alice Guittard is invited by the International Cultural Institute to present her first two solo shows.

VISUAL ARTS

EXHIBITION CURATOR

Kevser Güler (1983, Turkey) is a curator and researcher based in Istanbul. She has been part of the teams of recent exhibitions that include Nix, Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Bilsart, İstanbul, 2019; The Future of Ecology, Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam, 2018; Colony, the 2nd Contemporary Art Exhibition of Kaos GL Association, Istanbul, 2017; Ways Out from the World, Cappadox, Nevşehir, 2017; Let Us Cultivate Our Garden, Cappadox, Nevşehir, 2016 ; Living/Matter : In and Through, Proto5533, Istanbul, 2016; Cappadocia Struck, Cappadox, Nevşehir, 2015 & Agoraphobia, Tanas, Berlin, 2013. 

Kevser Güler was part of the Istanbul Biennale team from 2007 to 2014, working closely with curators Hou Hanru, WHW-What, How & for Whom, Jens Hoffmann and Adriano Pedrosa and Fulya Erdemci. She has also been part of the exhibition teams of the Online Biennale, 2013; Mediterranean Cities: The Art Biennales of Athens, Istanbul and Marrakech, Sicily, 2010, and What Happens To The Hole When The Cheese Is Gone, Istanbul, 2010 also. 

Since 2014, Kevser Güler has been working as a curatorial researcher for Arter – space for art in Istanbul. She is also a member of the birbuçuk collective, which functions as a platform in which various forms of knowledges and current discussions on art, political will, nature and geography are brought together with an emphasis on Turkey. Kevser Güler’s upcoming projects include Earth Health, Operation Room, Istanbul in 2019 and İris Ergül Solo Exhibition, Istanbul in 2019. 

Photo:

Nermin Er, Listen Series, 2017

Ways Out from the World, Cappadox, 2017 

Curator: Fulya Erdemci 

Associate Curator: Kevser Güler 

Assistant Curator: Ilgın Deniz Akseloğlu

photocredit: Furkan Temir

Amin Gulgee is a visual artist from Karachi, Pakistan. As an art practitioner, he works in sculpture, installation and performance. In his work, he explores spiritual territories and narrative traditions and the intersection between them.

His sculptures and installations have been exhibited in Venice, London, Lisbon, Dresden, New York, Washington, Karachi, New Delhi, Singapore, Beijing and Taipei. In 2018, he presented two solo exhibitions in Rome, one at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma Capitale and the other in Mattatoio.

As a museum curator, he is particularly interested in multidisciplinary intersections and South-South dialogues. He has also been actively involved in the field of performance, an emerging field in Pakistan. He has curated or co-curated many large-scale non-commercial exhibitions in his eponymous gallery and was chief curator of the first Karachi Biennale in 2017.