Artists in residence

Romain Dumesnil, lives and works between France and Brazil. He founded the independent space Átomos in Brazil in 2015.

Inspired by a variety of research fields such as natural sciences, shamanism, digital technologies and anthropology, Romain Dumesnil’s sculptures, installations and videos explore the emergence of hybrid systems and the interconnections of elementary forces and forms that compose them.

His solo exhibitions include projects presented at the Ema Klabin Foundation (São Paulo, Brazil), Coco Velten (Marseille, France), Temiorae Art Center (Daejon, South Korea) and Zipper Gallery (São Paulo, Brazil).

Romain Dumesnil has also participated in multiple group shows at institutions and galleries such as Fondation Fiminco – Jeune Création (Paris), Villa Arson (Nice), Iberê Camargo Foundation (Porto Alegre), Oscar Niemeyer Museum of Contemporary Art (Curitiba), Galerie de la SCEP (Marseille), Gentil Carioca Gallery (Rio de Janeiro).

Inka Romaní was born in 1992 in Valencia, Spain. She is a choreographer whose work weaves movement and artistic research together through an interdisciplinary approach. Her practice explores the intersection of tradition, folklore, and contemporary dance, examining notions of identity, community, and the tensions between past and present through embodied performances.

Her work has been showcased in various contexts, including Festival Dansa Valencia, La Casa Encendida, Centre Cívic Barceloneta, Conde Duque, Teatro Rialto, Teatro El Musical, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea del Carmen, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Festival 10 Sentidos, and La Mutant.

During her residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, Inka continues her research into embodied memory and documentary practices. Her project is part of broader discussions on historical trauma and cultural identity in post-dictatorial.

Letizia Romanini is a visual artist from Luxembourg based in Strasbourg. After a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts obtained in 2006, Letizia Romanini went to the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg from which she graduated in 2009 with a degree in Objects / Soft Materials directed by Edith Dekynt. Driven by the desire for transmission and collaborative creation, she completes her training in 2018 by the CFPI – Centre de formation des plasticiens intervenants at the HEAR (Haute école des arts du Rhin, Strasbourg).

Her recent exhibitions and projects include: Le Dos au SoL, Fëschmaart & Casino Luxembourg, LU curated by Agence Boderline (2021). ST-art, Foire d’art Contemporain, invited by the Eurométropole de Strasbourg, FR as a laureate of the SIGNATURE prize (2019). After all this time, always, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE (2018, solo show). Chantier d’été, Galerie Nadja Vilenne, Liège, BE (2017). Les images respirent aussi, curated by Iconoscope and Mickaël Roy, Drawing Room 016, La Panacée, Montpellier, FR (2016).

“My practice attempts to create a parenthesis, a breath or a freeze frame.The gesture, the repetition, the collection, the link, the meticulousness, the imprint participates in this time of pause where I invite to re-evaluate the everyday. I translate by “leaving for dead” fragments of the world that evolve as a counterpoint to a frenzy in which we are inscribed despite ourselves.

Faced with the progressive saturation of our universe by images, with the increasing mediation of our social relations by images and visual technologies, my approach is driven by the desire to draw attention to what we do not notice or what escapes us in our daily life. What habituation has derealized, my research aims at revealing it, and it is by taking into account the evanescent, the almost futile that I undertake to pronounce the fascinating existence of things.

Space and time are essential data in my work. My productions question the human condition and the fragile barrier oscillating between absence and presence, between the visible and the invisible.”

— Letizia Romanini