Artists in residence

Alexis Paul is a French composer, musician and cultural actor born in Sables d’Olonne in 1987. His first teacher was the trumpet player Erik Truffaz. His work is determined by a homogeneous form of poetic intention. Outside of any academic framework, he founded the groups Belle Arché Lou on guitar, Saudaá Group on barrel organ and has collaborated in many countries with artists ranging from songs to sound art, such as Mourad Belouadi (M), Pauline Drand (Fr), Christine Zayed (Pal), Hraïr Hratchian (Ca) or Layale Chaker (Lb). His productions, between popular and contemporary music, lead him to perform in national museums (Palais de la Porte Dorée, Château d’Angers), art foundations (Fon- dation Cartier, Villa Empain) as well as contemporary music venues like the Boule Noire.

In 2016, he spent the year alone for a creation project on the barrel organ, inter- roving in more than 10 countries the material that connects music to its environment. His work focuses on music as a “tool” and his most recent projects revolve around the concept of the Landscape-Organ. This is an impulse which, under the prism of the folk organ, is interested in folk traditions, their revival and their possible detour.

He is interested in writing, in ethnopoetics and composes for the cinema or documentary. In 2020, he was one of the laureates of the French Institute’s program “Résidences sur mesure” for his sound research project on Palestinian embroidery.

Magali Paulin graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles in 2011. Originally from Martinique, she has been working for several years in Caribbean islands such as Martinique and Guadeloupe.

In her work, she poetically addresses the notions of colonialism, memory, resilience and resistance. She is interested in questions of identity, cultural syncretism and their influence on the connections we forge with the world. The concept of Relation developed by the Martinican poet Édouard Glissant is one of her major influences.

Insularity and the motif of the archipelago are also vectors of creation for her. Her pieces are conceived both as independent islands and as a relational whole with multiple bridges and porosities. The question of the device is also important in her work and allows her to question the materiality of images.

Her photographs have been exhibited at several festivals and exhibitions in France and abroad. In 2023, she won the Mécènes du Sud Aix-Marseille prize for her project Jaden Kréyol.

Born in 1990 in France, Pierre Pauze graduated from the Beaux-Arts of Paris, with jury honours. He completed his studies at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains and was the winner of the Artagon Prize and the Agnes B Prize in 2017. Pierre Bauze recently exhibited his work at the Magasins Généraux, the Carreau du Temple, the Villette and the Brownstone Foundation in Paris, as well as at the Musée Es Baluard in Majorca and the K Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul. 

“Pierre Pauze’s work proteanly declines narrative fiction in video protocols close to cinematographic culture, mobilizing several levels of writing: ethnography, science-fiction, mystical narratives and video games. All these forms of narrative together produce a conceptual kaleidoscope, completing the traditional opposition between the observation of reality and the construction of a fiction. For Pierre Pauze, this material is an opportunity to project into a dystopic, complex and contradictory future.

Théo-Mario Coppola