Artists in residence

Marisol Mendez is a photographer from Cochabamba, Bolivia. In her work, she explores the tension between truth and fiction. Her research projects deconstruct traditional modes of representation, creating nuanced narratives that blend personal experience, collective memory, and imagination. Rooted in her cultural landscapes and folklore, her work oscillates between the candid and the mythical, aiming to challenge preconceived ideas and spark dialogue.Marisol Mendez’s work has been featured in exhibitions and publications, earning her accolades such as the Sony World Professional Award and the PhMuseum New Generation Grant. Last year, she was selected as a Foam Talent 2024-25 and published the book Madre with Setanta Books.

Pablo Méndez is an artist, curator, teacher, lecturer and writer born in Buenos Aires in 1988. Between Argentina, France and Brazil, his art develops interactions with the public, who are invited to imagine or pay attention to species on the verge of extinction.

After graduating from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles (2015), in 2017 and 2019 he received grants from the French Institute of Argentina and the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires, to conduct research into the links between humans and plants.

Exhibited internationally, Pablo Méndez’s work has been seen in Buenos Aires at the Centro Cultural Kirchner and the Jardín Botánico. Then in Madrid at La Calor and Matadero, in Paris at in.plano, Agnès b. and Galerie Oberkampff, then in Arles at Espace Van Gogh and Galerie Arénas, and finally in Marseille at FRAC PACA.

Camilo Méndez is a composer of acoustic concert music. He conceives his works as compositional cycles; series of pieces orbiting around the same musical ideas but written for different instrumental combinations. He completed a Doctorate and a Master’s in advanced composition at the Royal College of Music in London. He has also studied with Rebecca Saunders and Pierluigi Billone. In 2017, Méndez was appointed as the Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Academy of Music at HKBU.

His music has been performed by ensembles and soloists who specialize in contemporary concert music and has been featured in such international festivals as Festival Internacional Cervantino, the International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt, June in Buffalo, Klasik Keyifler, the Mallorca Saxophone Festival, and Next Generation Donaueschingen. Méndez has been awarded the Colombian National Prize in Composition, Colombia’s highest honor for music composition on two occasions, in 2023 and 2009. In 2021, his work Disappeared Quipu[s] received the first prize in the UiTM String Quartet International Composition Competition. He has held residencies and fellowships at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Willapa Bay AiR, the Bogliasco Foundation, Ensemble Recherche and the Goethe-Institut, the Virginia Centre for the Creative Arts, MacDowell Foundation, and Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris.

Mengzhi Zheng – French, Chinese born – is a visual artist living in Lyon. Space is at the heart of its concerns. This translates into “flat” works (drawings, engravings, photographs) and works in volume that he declines at different scales and that he presents and installs both inside and outside.

He was noticed for his series of “Abandoned mock-ups”, which he has been developing since 2014. They are small sculptures made of cardboard, paper and small woods assembled and glued. Fragile but stable, they are mounted in Mikado.

Whenever possible, he also creates large installation sculptures that interact with the exhibition space. These installations, the visitor is invited to cross them physically and mentally, and thus to “inhabit” them in a transitional and poetic way. His drawings and paintings in space take the form of “non-functional architextures”.

He has exhibited abroad in Frankfurt, Leipzig, Amsterdam, Casablanca, Shanghai, etc. In France he participated in the Hors-les-Murs du Palais de Tokyo in resonance at the Lyon Biennale in 2015, the Hortillonnages in Amiens in 2017, the Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans in Frac Centre in 2017-2018 where he was also resident for this occasion. He is currently working on the installation of a monumental and permanent work in the public space as part of the renovation of the LPA Les Halles car park in the centre of Lyon.