Artists in residence

MUSIC

PIANO 

Amélie Mathez (France) was born in 1989 and began playing piano at the age of 6. She started to study piano at the Conservatoire d’Aulnay-Sous-Bois at the age of 17 in the class of Catherine Schaff, where she got her 1rst Prize and “Prix de perfectionnement”. She worked with Julien Guénebaut in chamber music, and with Fernando Rossano during masterclasses in Nancy during several years, then she studied in the class of Bruno Rigutto at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris.

She is a laureate of the Chatou national competition, and takes part into many piano masterclasses: Festival des Nuits Pianistiques in Aix-en-Provence, Académies du Grand Nancy, Festival 1000 Sources et Dordogne with Guillaume Coppola, Academy Martha Argerich near Valencia with Mauricio Vallina. She especially likes the german romantic repertoire (Brahms, Schumann) and recorded the late piano pieces from Brahms in 2015 in Berlin. She is now studying at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris in the class of Henri Barda.

Manuel Mathieu was born in 1986 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and lives and works in Montreal, Canada.
Manuel Mathieu is a multidisciplinary artist, working across painting, ceramics and installation. His work investigates themes of historical violence, erasure and cultural approaches to physicality, nature and spiritual legacy. Freely operating in between and borrowing from numerous historical influences and traditions, Manuel Mathieu aims to find meaning through a spiritual or asemic mode of apparition. Manuel Mathieu is represented by gallery Pilar Corrias (London).

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‍Mathieu’s residency project will focus on the development of Recueil2, his second recueil of drawings, to be released in 2023. Drawing is an important part of Manuel Mathieu’s practice; while not foundational to his painting process, drawing “taught him how to look at his paintings”. It is for this reason that he committed to the production of a recueil of drawings every five years for the duration of his life, which will summarise his artistic explorations within the medium of drawing within each period. Recueil2 will follow the same format as the first, opening with a poem, following with a selection of drawings and then an interview with a thinker. The individuals invited for collaboration will be chosen from different continents, with the idea that this exchange of views will create a unique dialogue that will act as a complement to the body of drawings.

Ella Mathys (*1993, Zurich) is an artist and writer based in Zurich. She is interested in everything deemed incidental, intermediate, temporal or marginal, in things overlooked, disregarded or missed. By engaging with the expanding territories of collage – both as process-oriented method and iterative artwork – she explores non-linear ways of storytelling, questioning protocols and forms of narrative in or associated with the West.