Artists in residence

Titaua Peu is a Tahitian author born in 1975 in New Caledonia. After studying philosophy in Paris, she returned to Tahiti in 2002 and worked for a time in journalism and communication.

Her first novel Mutismes was published in 2003 by Haere Pö. At the age of 28, she became the youngest author in the Pacific. Wrongly perceived as autobiographical, it caused a sensation as soon as it was published because of its unacademic style and the subjects it tackles, between colonization, secular unspoken words and “respectful” silences still observed in Tahitian families.

In 2016, she published her second book Pina, published by “Au vent des îles”, which won the Eugène Dabit Prize for the best populist novel one year later, a first for Polynesian literature.

An author with an eminently political commitment, Titaua Peu shows a realistic Polynesian society, far from illusory clichés. She represents one of the main French-speaking voices of Pacific literature. Following in the footsteps of “writers from elsewhere”, it is through her Tahitian voice that the realities of her own country are expressed. In spite of her refusal to assimilate and her unclassifiable side, she has definitively established herself as an author who cannot be ignored in the Polynesian intellectual and artistic landscape. 

Luciana is a composer, performer, director and educator. Her compositional work combines vocal and instrumental forces with fixed and live electronics, live video and film.

Her performative practice is devoted to the interpretation of New music, being active in the diffusion of Argentinean composers including herself. She has performed in Venues and Festivals internationally: Musikfestival Bern, Acht Brücken Festival Cologne, Gare du Nord Basel, Société de Musique Contemporaine Lausanne, three editions of CICTEM (International Congress of Music Science and Technology) at UNA, First Conference of Contemporary Music at Damus, Centro Nacional de la Música Buenos Aires.

She took training in Opera Staging at ISATC (Teatro Colon Superior Institute of the Arts) and has collaborated with organisations and opera productions as Stage Director and Assistant director: Sounding Shakespeare with Puzzle Piece Opera Company, Don Giovanni and Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) at Opernfest Berlin, Lady Sarashina (Eötvos) with Swiss Opera Studio, La Sonnambula (Bellini) with Dov’è la Bussola Opera company, Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) and Suor Angelica (Puccini) at Centro Nacional de la Música Buenos Aires, and The Old Maid and The Thief (Menotti) at Teatro 25 de Mayo.

She graduated in Music from the National University of the Arts and in Theatre from the Metropolitan School of Drama (Buenos Aires). She also holds a certificate in Music Education from Manuel de Falla Conservatoire of Music and has been teaching music in institutional contexts and privately since 2011.

Réjean Peytavin, a French-Swiss artist, was born in 1986. A graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Paris), he also completed post-graduate programs at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Nantes (Art and Enterprise) and at ENSA Limoges (Kaolin, Art and Design in Contemporary Ceramics).

His research is mainly oriented around the ceramic medium, its recent and past production systems, and the cultural crossings that are inscribed in it. By articulating this medium plastically while subjecting it to other possibilities such as video, the artist puts into perspective the crossing of globalized cultures and the transfer of knowledge through the migration of techniques.

In his installations, which are articulated around the material exploration of the links between form, its manufacture and its uses, Réjean Peytavin questions the medium around what it contains, what it transmits, and what remains readable through time. Thus, his sculptures find their importance in the protocols of manufacture and the empirical crossings of technical cultures. He places this formal experimentation in the field of industry, which he links to the places of residence that welcome him to carry out his projects. He has worked with companies such as Geberit (sanitary ceramics, Limoges, France) or Gasser Ceramic (industrial tile factory, Bardonnex, Switzerland), with researchers at the Pasteur Institute, and with startups such as 60circuits or ODIWI.

Réjean Peytavin pursues his research through artistic residencies, recently at the CIAV (Centre International d’Art Verrier) Meisenthal, at the CERCCO (HEAD – Geneva), at the Maison du Patrimoine de Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, or at the Bruckner Foundation (Carouge, Switzerland). He has also obtained the DRAC Île-de-France Individual Creation Grant for the project SATURNISM, a fiction he co-directed with the choreographer Alice Bertrand.

He has participated in exhibitions at the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga (Latvia), the Musée des Arts Asiatiques in Nice, the FRAC Limousin, the Trapholt Museum in Kolding (Denmark), the Musée Adrien Dubouché in Limoges and the Musée de Picardie in Amiens. His works are present in the collection of the Maison du Patrimoine in Saint-Yrieix, the Musée du Verre et du Cristal in Meisenthal, the Piscine (Musée d’art et d’Industrie André Diligent) in Roubaix and the MUDAC (Lausanne, Switzerland).