Artists in residence

Natalia Lopez is a visual artist who lives and works in Paris. Her work is situated in the furrow that separates the image (photo as well as animated) from the text. She digs this space by looking for correspondences, by creating links that connect one to others, by building bridges that introduce other possible points of view into this interstitial space.

Her work is nourished by urban spaces and traces of life that bear witness to transversal uses, how one reinvents in daily life what seems to be forever. It is also a tribute to the resistance of materials against time.

Abraham Poincheval is an insatiable explorer. Whether it’s crossing the Alps by pushing a capsule that serves as a shelter or locking himself in a rock for a week, his expeditions – itinerant or static – require total commitment of the body. The habitable sculptures that the artist designs are laboratories through which he experiences time, confinement or immobility. They are the envelope that welcomes the performer, the object that disrupts the landscape and exists through the narratives of witnesses.

After a life of wandering along the streets in the abandoned districts of Heraklion, Natalia Lopez and Abraham Poincheval decided to reincarnate in human form to join the Cité internationale des arts.

Freshly become human, they chose to work with four hands between the bifurcations of photography, installation, writing but also to test a lot of new experiences animated by the dialogue between the visible and the invisible.

NL.AP: “… During our residency in Crete we found the metal plates or ex-votos, as well as the Oklades (metal protections placed on parts of the icons). At the same time receptacles, symbols of desires and objects of worship, they embody the expression of faith as close as possible to the image… “.

According to the oracle, this residence will bring them back to Greece for an unforgettable Sleepless Night and will give birth to fabulous projects.

Nourished by dance and cinema, Frédéric Nauczyciel makes photographs, films and performances that he constructs collaboratively with his protagonists. Since 2011, he has deployed his work between the black ghettos of Baltimore and the outskirts of Paris, drawing on the strength of performative languages such as voguing.

He exhibits in France (Musée de la Chasse in Paris, MAC/VAL, Été photographique de Lectoure, Rencontres internationales de photographie d’Arles, Festival d’Avignon, Centre Pompidou-Paris), in Barcelona and in the United States. In 2011, he is a recipient of the Villa Médicis program outside the walls for the United States (Institut français), in 2013 he receives a research grant from the National Center for Plastic Arts and his works are in the collection of the National Fund for Contemporary Art.

In 2017, after applying for a residency at the Cité internationale des arts to prepare his video installation La Peau Vive at the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Saint-Denis, he was selected to become an associate artist of the foundation. This status allowed him to stimulate ideas and create dynamic links within the community of residents, and to foster collaborations internally and with external partners. Through his multiple projects, Frédéric Nauczyciel builds bridges to animate the Cité internationale des arts in situ and fringe events.

Lauralie Naumann lives and works in Rouen. Having graduated from Ésadhar in 2021, she has developed a practice at the crossroads of sculpture, installation and performance.
‘In her practice, Lauralie Naumann gives free rein to the spontaneity of her attraction to a material, her fascination with an object, and her amusement at a situation. She plays with the feelings aroused in her by encounters with incongruous things and diverse sensations. Her work, which blends installation, sculpture and performance, is a way for the artist to translate into forms, gestures and words that which eludes her. It allows her to create some distance from the chaos of the world around her in everyday life, whilst at the same time embracing its inconsistencies.” — Marie Plagnol, independent curator and art educator