Artists in residence

Younès Ben Slimane is a Tunisian artist, filmmaker and architect. In 2020, he joined Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. His training as an architect has a major influence on his approach as an artist. Working through film, video, drawing and installation, he establishes a permanent dialogue between architecture and visual arts, where different mediums coexist and reflect their respective potentialities and limits.

He has participated in contemporary art events including Jaou Tunis (TN) and Documenta fifteen (DE). His work has been shown at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris (FR), Selma Feriani Gallery in Sidi Bou Saïd (TN), Mucem in Marseille (FR) and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje (MK). His films have been selected in international festivals including Locarno Film Festival, CPH:DOX and DokuFest. In 2021, he received the Studio Collector Award.

Hakim Abel Ben Youcef (Hakeem b) lives and works in Paris and Lyon since 2009. After graduating from the École Nationale Supérieure de Dijon and the Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains (Sartre/Beauvoir-élève class of the Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda), he won several international prizes in digital arts and joined renowned residencies such as the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, the Cité internationale des arts in Paris or the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral in Bad-Ems.

His research focuses mainly on digital creation tools. Video, whether it is performance, installation or simple monstration, invests different territories of reflection.

The work presented on this page (HAB P006) prefigures the passage of our societies from a material world to the world of dematerialization. It is a work that the artist has been carrying out since the early 2000s by combining two philosophical and theoretical territories with the notions of impotence, failure and fall. It is a research inscribed in the space-time of the contemporary world. Aesthetically, the pieces combine 2d animation, 3d animation, recovery of materials filmed or not on social networks (YouTube…), programming, digital drawing and musical compositions. An interconnection of disciplines feeds its visual language: namely a logic of co-construction of visual matter. (A perpetual reconstruction of the material produced. The latter becomes the material which itself becomes a new matter for reflection and creation). For the artist nothing is lost because nothing is finished.

His works are exhibited mainly in venues such as the Grand Palais and Petit Palais in Paris, the Chelsea Art Museum in New York City, the Redbrick Art Center in Yokohama, the Bibliotheca in Alexandria, the Malba Foundation in Buenos Aires, the MNAM in Paris (…) he has been represented by galleries such as Schirman & de Beaucé (Paris), c5collecciòn (Santiago de Compostela) and Gad Gallery (Oslo).

Hakim Abel Ben Youcef · Mü

“Mü is built according to a specific musical creation protocol. It takes its source in a photograph (a cloudy sky) taken last August 16th. Between grayscale, programming, graphic design, the composition is inserted in the field of digital works. Graphic and sound composition for two instruments (Noé Nillni : Double bell trumpet and Paul Müller Reyes : Modular Synthesizer), the aerial and textured sound explores the fine particles of this cloudy sky; the clouds obey the stars; they heckle them, couple them, excite them, in a score in 3 times. As defined by Aristotle on the first causes of any motor movement: All things are moved by another.”

– Hakim Abel Ben Youcef, 2021

Hanan Benammar, born in 1989, is an Algerian and French artist based in Oslo who works conceptually on geopolitical, environmental and social issues. She holds an MA from the Academy of Fine-arts of Oslo, Norway and a second MA from the Dutch Art Institute, The Netherlands.

Benammar’s practice ranges between music, sound and video installation, performance, sculpture and art in public space. Many of her works are made over a long time period, dedicated to a process that will unfold on a lifetime scale and repeat over time in different forms. 

She has exhibited and performed in numerous places. Lately at Bildmuseet (Umeå), Radikal Unsichtbar (Hamburg), Across the Golden Bridge (Reykjavík), BEK/Bergen Kjøtt (Bergen), Kunstnerforbundet (Oslo) and Le Cube (Rabat) among others. In 2018, she was also one of the co-authors and performers of the theatre play Ways of Seeing, which continues to have unprecedented consequences on the Norwegian society and political landscape.