Artists in residence

Mohamed Kandel (ANDEEL) was born in Kafr al-Sheikh, Egypt in 1986. After learning from his uncle that his paternal grandfather was a filmmaker and that he made a feature film called Horses, which he took to the Berlin Film Festival. Rejected, certainly linked to the nationality of its author, the film did not have the desired merit. On his return to Egypt by boat, his grandfather threw the only copy of the film overboard and retired from the cinema forever.

The knowledge of this family episode led Mohamed Kandel (ANDEEL) to settle in Cairo and become a professional cartoonist at an early age, as well as to make short films (such as Qui sait ? a psychedelic film noir set in the Far West).
He also began writing television scripts, designing newspapers, co-founding the BD Tok Tok Tok Tok magazine, launching a fictional radio station in the Egyptian countryside (Radhio Kafril Sheikh el-Habeeba), using Facebook extensively, and more recently creating the youtube video series Big Brother. In 2012, he married a “really great” woman.

Hamedine Kane, Senegalese and Mauritanian artist and film director, lives and works between Brussels and Dakar. Through his practice, Hamedine Kane frequents borders, not as signs and factors of impossibility, but as places of passage and transformation, as a central element in the conception of itinerant identity. He uses words and images to highlight the notions of exile, wandering, and movement but also to replace political time with living time. He developed a strong interest in memory and heritage which reflected in “The School of Mutants” with Stéphane Verlet-Bottero, a research project that intermingles with the past and the future, transgressing and irrigating the limits of space and time.

Hamedine Kane’s latest works were exhibited at the last Dak’art Biennale under the direction of Simon Njiami, at Documenta 14: “Every Time A Ear Di Sound” curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Elena Agudio and Marcus Gammel.

In 2018 his work was the subject of a solo exhibition in Mumbai at Clark House Initiative, commissioned by Sumesh Sharma with whom he continued a collaboration at The Showroom in London. In 2018 Hamedine Kane also exhibited at the FIAC and The Colonie in Paris. Hamedine Kane participated in the Taipei Biennial 2020; he will be part of the Casablanca Biennale 2021. His film The Blue House received a special mention from the jury at IDFA in Amsterdam in 2020.

Hamedine Kane will lead the Three Americans in Paris project during his residency at the Cité internationale des arts.

The starting point of the project is a period in the life and work of three great black American artists who went into exile in Paris in the mid 1940s, Richard Wright, Chester Himes and James Baldwin, and puts into perspective the notion of literary heritage as a source of contemporary inspiration.

Theodora Kanelli is an artist and architect. She studied at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Diploma in Architecture, 2014), the Institut Supérieur des Arts de Toulouse (DNAP, 2015) and the Beaux-Arts de Paris (DNSAP, 2018). She has exhibited at the galleries Thaddaeus Ropac, Valérie Delaunay, Jeune Création in Paris, Zina Athanasiadou in Thessaloniki, KYAN in Athens, London Metropolitan University, Corderie Royale in Rochefort.

She won the SNF Art-Works prize from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (Athens, 2019). She has taught at IsdaT (Toulouse, 2023-2024) and the Hill School (Athens, since 2021), run art workshops at the Itinéraires festival in Marpissa (Paros, 2022, 2023) and designed the scenography for the theatrical show Cette guerre que nous n’avons pas faite (Paris, Caribbean 2017).

With artist Lise Thiollier, she has created a book entitled Hurlons, dit le chien, published by Keda-press (2022).