Artists in residence
Each year, the Cité internationale des arts welcomes more than 1,000 artists from around the world, offering them a space for creation, research, and exchange in Paris, in the Marais and Montmartre districts. Open to all artistic disciplines—visual arts, music, literature, film, design and architecture, performing arts, and curating—it enables artists to develop their projects in an environment that fosters experimentation and meaningful connections.
Camila Salame
Year/s of residence : 2021, Capsule
Visual arts
At the same time artist, art historian, passionate about sociology and philosophy, Camila Salame develops works in which the base of conceptual thought effectively supports the aestheticism of plastic forms to take them towards a poetry of the sensitive and the emotion. In addition to this, a complex construction of identity nourishes her work.
Colombian, Camila Salame is from a family immigrated from Lebanon and now settled in France after a passage in the United States. A large part of her research revolves around the quest for her origins. A questioning about loss, reconstruction, fragility and memory takes shape around the symbolism of the house.
Inspired by Gaston Bachelard, she deploys intimate spaces like reveries to weave links between the temporalities and places of a fragmentary identity. Like a migrating bird, Camila Salame recomposes this identity through her travels and research, building imaginary houses of paper (Au temps des champs de coton, 2013-present), flower petals, linen, gold leaf, tributes to craftsmanship (Maisons perdues. Romances du retour, 2013-2019), but also wallpapers like herbariums, which remind her of her native Colombia according to the “botany of an emotional landscape” (Florilegio, 2017). In the same way, the installation Eau de Roses et Fleurs d’Orangers (2018) takes the viewer on the traces of Lebanon through correspondence, music, singing, photos of cars, the Arabic language; a whole intimate quest, at once painful and tender, complex and poetic.
These themes are found and condensed in her reflections for Montrouge (Désorientés, 2019) around the Bald Ibis, a rare species of migratory bird that migrates between Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and then Ethiopia, found by chance in a nest in Palmyra and then disappeared for good in 2015 after the destruction of the city. From an installation, Camila Salame evokes loss, captivity, migration, the sacred and rebirth with delicacy and intelligence (…)
– Biography written by Anne-Sarah Bénichou, from the catalog edited for the 64e SALON DE MONTROUGE 2019
During her residency at the Cité internationale des arts, Camila Salame continues her creative research on language and identity in exile that she has begun with the project Parle, Mnemosyne in 2020. In this new series of sculptures and drawings, through “reminiscences” or poetic images, Camila Salame is interested in sleep, dreams as well as biological and scientific processes related to learning, memory and forgetting.
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Karl Salame
Year/s of residence : 2026, Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Paris
Cinema
Eszter Salamon
Year/s of residence : 2014, Cité internationale des arts
Spectacle vivant
Andraz Salamun
Year/s of residence : 1995, 1997, Cité internationale des arts, Union of Visual Artists of Slovenia
Visual arts
Tomaz Salamun
Year/s of residence : 1995, Union of Visual Artists of Slovenia
Literature
Ana Salas
Year/s of residence : 2003, Mozarteum Argentino Foundation, Argentina
Music
Juan Salas Carreno
Year/s of residence : 2014, Institut français
Visual arts
Luis Salazar
Year/s of residence : 2001, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Martin Salazar Santos
Year/s of residence : 1998, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Luis Ricardo Salcedo
Year/s of residence : 2002, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Joao Viotti Saldanha
Year/s of residence : 2005, ICATU Foundation (Grupo Icatu S.A), Brazil
Spectacle vivant
Farah Saleh
Year/s of residence : 2011, 2016, City of Paris, France, Institut français
Spectacle vivant
Sahar Salehi Doozloo
Year/s of residence : 2018, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Hamideh Salehi
Year/s of residence : 2016, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Samad Salehi
Year/s of residence : 2011, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Sharareh Salehi
Year/s of residence : 2001, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Shahrzad Salehi-Poor
Year/s of residence : 1998, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Tania Salehian
Year/s of residence : 1997, Cité internationale des arts, University of New South Wales - Art and Design (UNSW), Australia
Visual arts
Dina Salem
Year/s of residence : 2023, Welfare Association (Taawon)
Visual arts
Ilan Salem
Year/s of residence : 2020, Israel Ministry of Culture and Sports
Music
