Artists in residence

The Brazilian artist Dirceu Maués, born in Belém (1968), lives and works in Belo Horizonte.

He has a Doctor’s degree in Arts from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from the University of Brasilia (UnB). He worked as a photojournalist in the main printed newspapers in Belém (1997/2008).

From works in the field of photography, which involve the construction of handmade pinhole cameras and camera obscuras, he develops a poetics that puts into question technology and its devices by using these obsolete photographic devices. His photographic production expands to other languages such as video, video installations, drawing/painting, installations, and urban interventions.

In 2009 he was artist-in-residence of the program Rumos Itaú Cultural at Künstlerhaus Bethanien/Berlin. In 2011, he participated as a guest artist at the 16th Cerveira Biennial, Portugal, and the 17th International Festival of Contemporary Art SESC_Videobrasil, where he obtained a residency at WBK – Vrije Academy – The Hague, Netherlands.

His works are part of the following collections: Pirelli-Masp Photography Collection, FNAC Collection, SESC – Videobrasil International Festival of Contemporary Art, MAC – PR (Museum of Contemporary Art – PR), MARP (Ribeirão Preto Museum of Art) and MEP (Pará State Museum).

Kama La Mackerel is a multilingual writer, visual artist, performer, ritualist, educator, and literary translator whose work explores insularity, oceanic memory, trans poetics, créolité, and decolonial ecologies. Working across disciplines, they examine interstitial spaces as sites of community-building, resistance, and emancipation. Their work has been presented in galleries, theatres, and universities across Canada and internationally. They are the author of two books: Indrazaal et la quête de l’océan (Éditions KATA, 2023) and ZOM-FAM (Metonymy Press, 2020). Originally from Mauritius, Kama lived in India before settling in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal in 2012.

Nick Mauss is an artist based in New York.

His recent solo exhibitions include Transmissions at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Bizarre Silks, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, etc. at Kunsthalle Basel; and Intricate Others at Fundação de Serralves, Porto.

His work has been featured in the Whitney Biennial, New York (2012); Florine Stettheimer at the Lenbachhaus, Munich (2014); Designing Dreams: a Celebration of Léon Bakst at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; Transcorporealities at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2019); A New Vision for Painting at the Fondation Louis Vuitton (2019); and currently, in a survey exhibition of Christian Bérard, Excentrique Bébé, at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco.

In 2019, Nick Mauss performed in the revival of Yvonne Rainer’s 1965 dance “Parts of Some Sextets.” His writings have been published in Artforum, October, May, Octopus Notes, and Texte zur Kunst.

While in residence at Cité international des arts, Nick Mauss will engage with archives of dance and the decorative arts, as well as with other artists and performers to develop a new work around theories of ornament and performance notation.