Artists in residence

Lamberto Santuccio was born in Syracuse in 1995. After high school, he studied Modern Literature at the Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna and Modern Philology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, then at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III. He taught Italian language and culture in elementary and high school in Douai (Hauts-de-France), before taking courses in publishing at the Scuola del Libro in Rome.

Lamberto Santuccio specializes in the study of ‘traveling’ writers who move between different cultures and languages. His dissertation is on European identity analyzed through the life and work of Milan Kundera, Tzvetan Todorov, and Julia Kristeva.

Her first translation from French into Italian, Cet Amour-là by Yann Andréa, will be published in Italy in early 2023. Currently in residence at the Cité internationale des arts for a project in partnership with the Institut français Italia, he is working on the translation of a text by the Franch-Greek writer Vassilis Alexakis.

INTERVIEW

You are currently in residence at the Cité internationale des arts thanks to a programme devised with ENSBA Lyon and as a winner of the Prix de Paris. What does this represent in your career and what does this residency bring you?

‘Being awarded this residency is a great boost for my work and research, and for the people who support it, nurture it and enable me to pursue it.

Being at the Cité internationale des arts also means moving into a new environment, a privileged setting for meeting artists and art workers, and welcoming them into a space where we can discuss our projects. This studio is a kind of laboratory that I’m trying to make as collective as possible – which is a central focus of my work.’

What artistic and professional opportunities have arisen since you’ve been in residence? 

‘Since my arrival at the Cité internationale des arts, I’ve been able to take part in the “Relâcher la paupière” exhibition, to which I was invited by the curator and head of the centre Alessandra Prandin, at the CAP St Fons, alongside four other artists.

I also collaborated with the artist Chloé Liberman on a series of pieces, one of which was shown at the ‘Unlocked’ exhibition at the Silly studios in Marseille during the PAC OFF.

It seems to me that since my arrival, it’s essentially been encounters, which although intangible, have been central to my work, as they allow me to think about projects, and to keep thinking about ways of making art.’

Can you tell us a little about your current and future projects?

‘Mice in Between’ is a collaborative project with graphic designers and artists Clara Degay, Charlotte Carletto and Clara Lemercier. It’s a platform that brings together artists and writers around a number of writing, rewriting and translation protocols. These protocols focus on, but are not limited to, the difficulty of finding one’s place and legitimacy in language. They are presented as tools for developing a new language by embodying and/or pirating hegemonic discourses.

This platform is particularly important because its creation responds to a personal need linked to our respective practices, and follows on from our research by inviting others to invest in and experiment with these issues.

For me, it’s once again a kind of laboratory space. At the same time, I’m preparing a group exhibition that represents a new stage in my thinking and production around these same questions of language and appropriation, this time in particular in the field of ‘Marketingmilitant’. I’ve chosen to bring together a number of artists-friends-x who address these issues in different ways within their practice, and to work with them to propose forms of theoretical and formal collaboration. It’s an exhibition that I’m very keen to be able to produce as part of this residency.’

BIOGRAPHY

Fanette Lambey was born in Dole (Jura) in 1997. She graduated from ENSBA Lyon in 2023 and now lives and works in Paris. She won the Prix Dufraine (2023), then the Prix de Paris, and is currently resident at the Cité internationale des arts.

Her work is constructed through gestures of translation, quotation and plagiarism. Guided by this notion of intertextuality, she collects images and texts that she attempts to reveal or neutralise through their cohabitation. The installations she constructs weave together filiations, pre-existing or supposed, oscillating between ambiguities and significant breaks. Within the latter, she seeks to subvert the authority of what she sees as a hegemonic language, and of those who speak and transmit it, by using common language tools such as misunderstanding and innuendo.

Fanette Lambey is currently in residence through the ‘ENSBA Lyon x Cité internationale des arts’ programme.