Artists in residence

Jeanne et Moreau is the name of artist duo Lara Tabet and Randa Mirza. The duo started working in 2018 on a long-term project called End-to-End Encrypted in reference to the data encryption system, in which only the communicating users can read the messages.

This work draws on their common image bank and questions the relationship of the two artists to new digital technologies and their place in the world as queer women artists. It accompanies the trajectory of their couple as well as their relationship to the photographic medium and to the contexts of production, transmission, sharing and reception of images.

Randa Mirza is a visual artist that works with photography and video. She creates live video performances and make optical devises to question representation and the gaze point of view. Her work seeks to review normalized, gendered and orientalist illustrations by making visible the current symbolic, social and political constructs.

Lara Tabet is a practicing medical doctor and visual artist. Her artistic practice is informed by her background in pathology and inspects the legacy of trauma in Lebanon. Her work contemplates the relationship between the individual and public/private space in connection to gender, sexuality, and identity. More recently, her practice has shifted towards arts and sciences and her ongoing research focuses on water as a site of political speculation as well as DNA as a medium for archiving.

Lina Laraki was born in 1991 in Casablanca in Morocco. She lives and works in France. 

 
Lina Laraki is a film director and visual artist graduated from Central Saint Martins (2014) and Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains (2022). Her practice probes obscure themes exploring the ambivalence of nature and human experiences.

She expands the experience of cinema through sensorial representations. Her films have been shown internationally, that includes Karama at 1:54 Art Fair, UK in 2017 – The Last Observer at Sheffield DocFest, UK in 2021, Halves Through Night at Fantasia IFF, Canada in 2022. Her latest film Shinigami was awarded the Renato & Christine Casciani prize (Around Video Art Fair) in France in 2022. 

Following a form of speculative investigation focused on the diverse mental states coupled with anatomical medicine in the face of institutional violence, Lina Laraki would like to examine the way madness was identified and treated in the great gloomy madhouse of La Salpêtrière in the 19th century, and relate it to our contemporary approach of what is considered marginal behaviors and mental disability. The core idea of this project lies in the diversion of the classification system of definitions of madness through elaborated characters, role plays and inverted situations in which narration becomes layered and complex. This new piece of work will be the continuation of her practice, which is led by rhizome thoughts on human deviances (social, behavioral or mental) and their marginalizations from functioning society.