Artists in residence

Hussein Nassereddine (born in 1993, Beirut, Lebanon) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works between Beirut and Paris. Combining installation, writing, video and performance, his practice centres on language, collective narratives and poetry to create what he calls ‘fragile monuments’ – whether verbal, auditory or tactile.

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.

Ritó Natálio is a Lisbon-based artist and researcher whose practice intersects performance, anthropology, and ecology through experimental artistic research and interdisciplinary curatorial strategies. They have developed several lecture-performances exploring relationships between language and geology, presented internationally across artistic and academic contexts. In 2023, they created Spillovers, a collective reinterpretation of Lesbian Peoples: Material for a Dictionary (1976) by Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig, developed as a performance, film, and book. In 2025, they premiered Rite of Transition, co-produced by the National Theatre D. Maria II. Ritó holds a PhD in Artistic Studies and Anthropology and has coordinated Terra Batida since 2020. They are an associate artist of Associação Parasita.

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.