Artists in residence

RESH was born in Siloam, on the island of Lifou in New Caledonia.

He works with the Nyan company at the Centre Culturel Jean-Marie Tjibaou, which is his favourite place of residence. The debates surrounding New Caledonia’s independence prompted him to question his own identity and independence. In 2013, the Lifou storytellers’ association lapa lapa ië took him under its wing and gave him a great deal of support as he embarked on his first tours of the island.

Revealed to the public at large by the Pacific Arts Festival in Guam in 2016, he shares the traditions and values of his culture, mixing them with traditional, contemporary and world music sounds, and blending DREHU, his mother tongue, with French.

Transcending borders, each performance goes off the beaten track to speak of the coexistence of tradition and modernity. This duality makes him at once a goblin, a warrior and a citizen of the world who upsets the established rules. The whole is in a perpetual state of metamorphosis. In all humility, he honours Kanak culture and the Oceanian world. He’s an artist who lives and breathes his performances, perpetuating the tradition of oral transmission handed down by his ancestors. His musical universe is varied, the result of his curiosity and encounters. His work is for everyone, and resonates with everyone.

He is currently working on his main character : TROTROYMERESH, and on his show P2R. He has been supported from the outset by Poemart, the Maison de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, the New Caledonian Ministry of Cultural Affairs and the Province of the Loyalty Islands.

Born in 1990 and graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2018, My-Lan Hoang-Thuy lives and works in Paris. In 2018, she was nominated for the Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts and won the Graduate Photography Award before exhibiting at the Salon de Montrouge. She participated in the Artpress Biennial of Young Artists at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne in 2020. In 2022, the exhibition Belle Orchidée, Pissenlit Passable marked the beginning of a collaboration between the artist and the Galerie Mitterrand which continued at the end of the year with a group exhibition called Cloud Point in London, as well as a residency at the Domaine du Muy. Invited by Simon Baker, My-Lan Hoang-Thuy is also preparing her first solo institutional exhibition at the MEP in 2023.

To define her work as much as to describe herself, My-Lan Hoang-Thuy speaks a precise language and chooses exact words. Her series are moods and her works are objects. Acrylic is here the container-content of the work, painting is both the subject and the object. Her works, objects of paint and painted objects, are the result of solidified acrylic drips on which the artist prints images, motifs, and memories of a sometimes turbulent personal history. In another history, that of art, it is the late 19th century that fascinates the artist. This century which claimed to account for reality only to get rid of it, and finally saw Gauguin promise the truth in painting. While the pigment sediments and the paint dry, My-Lan Hoang-Thuy’s objects each speak a truth, that of the moment, fluid and subjective.