DISTANCE, PROXIMITY & CONNECTION

                                    You can find full biographies in the exhibition space

Vir was born in Yauhquenehcan, Mexico, and is based in Savoie, France. 

The starting point of Vir's practice is the convergence of issues relating to immigration, exile, gender identity and multiple cultural belonging, whose diversity they strive to restore. Crossing personal narratives and pieces of history, his works make words, voices and languages heard that they associate with fragmented visual montages and enigmatic images, as a reflection of the plurality of perspectives and realities.

VAH's projects oscillating between video installations, moving image, sound and text. 

He questions the multiple relationships between reality and memory, vernacular and scholarly histories to invent emancipatory narratives.

He graduated from MOCO, du Fresnoy, Vir is currently doing a PhD at Montreal/Quebec, is a ESAAA Artist researcher and is in residence at Villa Velazquez, and is a Triangle-Asterides member of the Qalqalah Committee.

Hera was awarded the prize for young international artist at biennale de Lyon 2024.

www.virandreshera.com

Vincent BROQUAIRE. was born in Strasbourg, France, where he works and lives. Vincent work with drawing, animation films, installations and interventions in public space.

Hi work expresses relationships between nature and new technologies, at the centre of which Man imposes himself as the great decision maker and manipulator. Landscape plays a driving role in his work, it is considered as a technical construction that Man transforms according to his needs and whims.
The artist thus builds a critical understanding, fed with irony and poetry, of Man and his insatiable need to control his environment. He analyses the mechanisms of a system allowing 'Man to play God.' A system translated by drawing, where the real and the fictional merge

www.vincentbroquaire.com  

Jenny was born in Havana, Cuba, she lives and works in Paris, Lyon, France and Havana, Cuba.

Jenny Feal’s facilities translate her personal experience of the Cuban history in poetic forms, sometimes symbolic and sometimes documentary forms, to testify the conditions of existence and the fragility of a daily life conditioned by the political regime of a country caught between Ideology and reality. Feal's works have been inspired by memories accumulated through encounters in her native island. The artist traveled a few years ago to Zaza, a small town in the province of Sancti Spiritus, Cuba. This is where her family began their history on the island, after leaving Spain in the early 20th century.

She studied at Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana (Cuba), École Supérieure d’Art et de Design Marseille and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Lyon, France.

www.jennyfeal.fr

lives and works in Lyon, France.

the Gentil Garçon will not reveal his face or his real name. This alter ego has become an entity in its own right for its creator. From the beginning, the artist  behind this pseudonym was inspired by Daft Punk to make his first smiling mask, halfway between 'a Playmobil and Astro, the little robot', he set out to make happenings in public places. The artist's double identity quickly proved a useful way to blur the lines: "It allows me to create works that are very different from each other, as if the Gentil Garçon were a collective.'

Jérémy Griffaud was born in Nice, France where he lives and works

He is a multimedia artist who explores the question of the spectator in hybrid realities, through devices that blend the virtual and the real. 

Using scanned watercolors, video game engines, virtual reality headsets and monumental projections, he creates immersive, interactive environments. uestions Man's relationship with Nature. 

www.jeremy-griffaud.fr

Çağla Erdoğan. was born in Izmir, Turkey, she lives between Annecy & Marseille, France

Çağla is a multimedia artist, working across visual art, cinema and music. 

Intrigued by the notion of amateurism and intimacy in film, she began making experimental filmed diaries in 2020, with a pocket-sized digital camera. Exaggerated pixels in harmony with her acoustic and improvised soundtracks, she questions the triangular power dynamics between the female gaze, power and the camera.  A lover of moving images, after completing a year working at imagespassages, she moved to New York, to work with the Film-Maker's Cooperative. Çağla is currently working on her first feature film project 

Ji. Sun LEE was born in Seoul, Korea, and now lives in Paris

A multimedia artist, JiSun explores ambulatory creative paths: video, drawing, object, photo, animation, music, text and installation. Time, memory, anonymity, the i, the fragment, the dot-line-plane, oblivion, home, and shadow are points of interest from his glossary of conceptions. Lee's practice is mainly disseminated through exhibitions, film and video festivals, art fairs, video-concerts between France and Korea, as well as in other countries in Europe and America. 'Mother and the Mother of Mother, My hands write, draw, cook, caress, tap, touch, and dance. I walk with my fingers, I travel within reach of my two hands, sometimes left-handed, sometimes right-handed, often ambidextrous.'

www.artleesijun.com

He studed at the School of Fine Arts in Toulon, Moussa  participated in the Salon d'Art contemporain de Montrouge and in Jeune création in 2008. In 2010, his work was selected for the FIAC, in the Cinéphémère program of the Fondation Ricard. Invited in 2011 by the BJCEM (Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Thessaloniki, Greece), he presented his videos in 2012 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on the occasion of the 17th edition of the Annual Boston French Film Festival. Winner of the Prix Coup de Coeur Mécènes du Sud (Marseille) in 2012, His work are in collections; the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Arras, the FRAC PACA, the FNAC - Fond National d'Art Contemporain (Paris), the Collection Lambert (Avignon), the François Pinault Collection  and international private collections.

Emmanuel Tussore lives and works in the south of France.

Emmanuel considers his art to be an ongoing exploration of the existential questions of origin and identity, combined with a fluid understanding of being and an attention to forms of hybridity, métissage and transculturality that resist the structural mechanisms of territorial boundaries and social exclusions. The subjects of his work often arise from a form of personal unease that results from observing the destabilization of collective realities. In the face of numerous global crises, violations, and displacements, including the resulting ecological threats. He uses artistic practice to research and question the foundations of humanism. 

He has acquired international recognition, exhibiting in major artistic events such as the Havana Biennial (2019), the Cairo Biennial (2019) and the Dakar Biennial (2022). His work has also been presented during photography and film festivals including the Lagos Photo Festival (2016) and the Berlinale, Berlin International Film Festival (2017), and programmed in theaters such as Théâtre de la Ville de Paris (2019). 

www.emmanueltussore.com

Ludivine ZAMBON lives in Annemasse & Paris, France

Ludivine is a film-maker, photographer, visual artist and storyteller.

She draws on her personal history and the rural Alpine environment from which she grew to tell intimate stories through collective bodies. She conjures up myths, translates rituals and refers to the figure of the anti-hero to construct narratives bordering on the documentary. She plays with the lines between the staged and the spontaneous, placing the viewer in the interstice, in a suspended moment before the possible collapse.

Through her various formal researches, she creates a preservation, an archive of the territories in crisis where she is invited to explore. A formal anthropological study of nature and culture emerges from a process of collecting. Ludivine raises the question of their durability, and formulates the palpable tensions between the desire to preserve our world and the traces of a humanity that is changing it.

www.ludivinezambon.com

about the artists

Renata Cassiano Alvarez is a Mexican-Italian artist, who works predominantly in the medium of clay, in a search for developing an intimate collaborative relationship with material and material language. Influenced by archeology and history, she is interested in the power of the object as survival - objects with a sense of permanence and timelessness, and language as transformation; specially how adopting a different language can affect the physicality of the human body, and how this translates into material. Educated in Mexico, Italy, Denmark and the US, she has had the opportunity to work in different artistic environments, a cross-cultural and multimedia experience which has lead to the belief that craft is an evolving field and something that exists in motion. Her work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in public and private collections in Mexico, Estonia, Italy, Taiwan, Germany, Denmark, Latvia, China, USA and Slovenia. Renata is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Arkansas School of Art, and works between her studio in Veracruz, Mexico and Springdale, Arkansas.

Antonia Low is a Berlin based artist and Professor at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Her sculptural and conceptual art is concerned with the interaction between architecture, narratives, materiality and aesthetics. With her interventions she explores and combines various procedures and strategies. In her space filling installations she reflects on spatial situations, pursuing the overlap of different layers of temporality and space.

Low’s installations were presented at GIBCA Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, ISCP New York; Ginkgo Space Beijing; K21 Kunstsammlung NRW Düsseldorf; Palazzo Altemps National Museum of Rome, Kunstmuseum Bonn; Kunstverein Braunschweig; MACRO Testaccio Rome; Städtische Galerie Nordhorn; Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken. Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k..

Kirsty Russell is based in Aberdeen. Her work is concerned with support, and structures that underpin and maintain. With reference to the women in her family who work in positions of care, she often returns to the physical and emotional weight of the work that they do and to the repetitive nature of maintenance. Her work expands into places of care, such as hospitals and schools, through project worker and other supporting roles.

Kirsty featured in Syllabus IV, a collaboratively-produced alternative learning programme, jointly delivered by Wysing Arts Centre, Spike Island, Studio Voltaire, S1 Artspace, Eastside Projects and Iniva. She was resident at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art (2022-24) and received a bursary and funding from Jerwood. Kirsty’s work has been exhibited at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Mimosa House, London, Platform: 2021, Edinburgh Art Festival, Glasgow Women’s Library and the Jerwood Staging Series, Jerwood Arts Space, London and her first solo exhibition Practising Bodies at Cubitt Gallery, London - in June 2024.

Amba Sayal-Bennett is a British-Indian artist based in London, who works across drawing, projection, and sculptural installation. Her practice explores how methods of abstraction are exclusionary and performative, crafting boundaries between what is present, manifestly absent, and othered. Her recent work focuses on the migration of modernist forms and their role within fascist and brutalist architecture. Using translation as method, she explores the movement of bodies, knowledge and form across different sites, processes inherent to the diasporic experience.

Following a Sculpture MA at the Royal College of Art, Amba was awarded a PhD in Art Practice and Learning from Goldsmiths University, her research was published with Tate Papers. Amba was The Derek Hill Foundation scholar at the British School at Rome (2022) and currently lectures at Camberwell College of Arts. Recent exhibitions include Geometries of Difference, Somerset House, London, Horror in the Modernist Block, IKON, Birmingham, My Mother Was a Computer, indigo+madder, London and Tomorrow, White Cube, London.

Del Hardin Hoyle is an Artist, Designer and Musician currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Del operates an open and dynamic studio practice that combines interior and furniture design with sculpture, installation, sound and drawing. His work is often saturated with color and riddled with detail. There is a disarming and chaotic humor to his exhibitions that attempt to subvert our experience of place.

Selected exhibitions include ‘slippy’ at Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn, ‘Sprout, Hinge, Nap, Wobble’ at EFA Project Space and ‘Artist’s Tools’ at Special Special both in Manhattan.

In 2023 he co-founded the experimental design studio Outgoing with artist and designer Brett Gui Xin. Del was awarded the President's Scholarship to attend Parsons The New School for Design (graduated in 2017).

TC McCormack works in the field of interdisciplinary art and curatorial practice, his artistic methods interrogate the constituents of sculptural space, image making (moving & fixed) and text. Central to his curation is an interest in more agile and commutable forms of address. Based in London, McCormack is the director of the exhibition space: EUCA Annex, he is a Researcher and Senior Lecturer, in Fine Art, at Sheffield Hallam University. TC has exhibited at Forum Exposition Bonlieu (France), Viborg Kunsthal (Denmark) Kunstraum (Linz) Nationalmuseum (Berlin), ICA (London) Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin) Centre pour L’image Contemporaine (Geneva) Platform (Istanbul) FACT (Liverpool) Kunstnernes Hus (Olso) and European Capital of Culture (Cork).

Ivan Seal lives and works in Berlin, he is a painter and sound artist who specializes in surreal and abstract works centered around concepts of memory and the creation of imagined objects.

He has exhibited internationally in institutions, galleries and alternative spaces. Recently, these have included Podo Museum (South Korea), Frac Auvergne (France), Unsound (Poland), Alma Pearl (UK), Richard Heller (USA), Monica Cardenas (Italy) and Allouche Benias (Greece). Seal also collaborates with the musician James Kirby, particularly in the project The Caretaker.

Ivan studied at Sheffield Hallam University and he lectures at the Royal College of Art.

Heidi Sill lives and works in Berlin, she works across a variety of media including: ink drawings, collages and installations. An examination of the phenomenon of the surface, such as symbolic inscriptions on the outer appearance, injuries and marks, and thus concepts such as the trace and the imprint, play an essential role in her work.

Sill studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques, Paris. She has lectured at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin), Ecole Supérieure d'Art et Design Grenoble-Valence (F) and currently at the HAW Hamburg, Department Design. Sill is a spokesperson for and board member of; bbk berlin (Professional Association of Visual Artists).

Heidi has been commissioned for Public Art projects and has exhibited internationally,

including: a.o ZAK Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst, Zitadelle Spandau; Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden; Neues Museum Nürnberg; Kunstpavillon Munich; n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin; Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Istres (F); Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Le Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble; Bonner Kunstverein; Club Transmediale Berlin; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; kunst galerie fürth; Griffin Gallery, London; Kunsthaus Erfurt; Kunsthalle Nürnberg; Artothek Munich; Kunsthaus Nürnberg; Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam; Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London

Tommy Støckel’s projects draw inspiration from everyday objects, spaces and situations as well as from found digital material. These are meticulously reworked and transformed into artworks in a wide range of media, including site-specific installations, sculptures, photographs, typefaces, emojis and various digital formats.

Støckel was born in Copenhagen and is based in Berlin. He has had solo exhibitions at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main; Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen and Arnolfini, Bristol. His work has also been shown in The Atlantic Project, Plymouth; Eastside Projects, Birmingham; CAPC, Bordeaux; Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm and the Gwangju Biennale.

Alasdair Asmussen Doyle is based between Belfast and Brussels, he employs moving-image and filmic heritage to navigate multiple relations of physical places and films. Combining contemporary theories of landscape with early shooting instruments, he creates works that negotiate hybrid geographical positions. Drawing from an array of narratives that traverse both time and place, his installations and films render spaces as perpetually evolving and fragmented. This perspective is shaped by Alasdair's own experiences as an Australian inhabiting another island on the other side of the globe, and his work seeks to address potentialities of dislocation and duality. Alasdair’s work has been shown at Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg; The Serving Library, Liverpool; Leave of Absence (LOA), London; Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris; Meat Markets, Melbourne; Void Gallery, Northern Ireland; and undertaken residencies at An Lanntair, Outer Hebrides; the British School of Rome, Rome; La Cite des Arts, Paris and Popp’s Packing, Detroit. Alasdair has lectured at the Royal College of Art (London) and Belfast School of Art, and is currently completing a practice-based PhD at the Belfast School of Art, in partnership with aemi (Dublin).

Benedict Drew is based in Whitstable and Margate, he works across video, sculpture, drawing, painting, and music. Solo exhibitions include The Trickle-Down Syndrome, Whitechapel Gallery, London; KAPUT, QUAD, Derby; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; and THE ANTI ECSTATIC MACHINES and Heads May Roll, Matt’s Gallery, London. Drew’s work has been exhibited internationally including at Adelaide Festival, Australia; Lofoten International Arts Festival, Norway, Hayward Touring exhibitions, British Art Show 8 and Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness. He has been commissioned by Art on the Underground, London and Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, and his work is included in important collections, including the Arts Council. Drew has performed in improvising ensembles, programmed concerts and club nights, and been a producer at the cultural charity London Musicians Collective. Drew often collaborates with other artists and musicians, and has released records on Mana Records and Kaleidoscope. He launched his own label; Thanet Tape Centre in 2020, and regularly makes work for radio. Benedict is a Lecturer in Fine Art at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and is represented by Matt’s Gallery, London.

Melanie Manchot is a London based visual artist and filmmaker who works with photography, moving image and sound as a performative and participatory practice. Her projects often explore specific sites, public spaces or particular communities in order to locate notions of individual and collective identities. The mutability of subjectivity as well as the agency of the camera in creating a set of relations are key interests within Manchot’s investigation of personhood and its representations. Manchot’s work is included in important public and private collections, her work has been shown nationally and internationally including exhibitions at The Whitechapel Gallery, London; MacVal, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Paris; The Photographers Gallery, London; The Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Australian Museum of Photography, Sydney. Manchot has participated in a number of biennales, including The Venice Biennale in 2007 and The Istanbul Biennial in 2009. Her debut feature film: STEPHEN was exhibited at the Liverpool Biennial (2023) and premiered at Sheffield DocFest (2023). The installation STEPHEN is to tour nationally and the film will be released to cinemas by Modern Films in spring 2024. 

Miranda Pennell is a London-based artist-filmmaker, her films emphasise the role of the imagination in the interpretation of historical documents, most recently drawing on genre-fiction as a way of engaging with troubled histories. After training as a dancer Miranda’s practice shifted from dance and live choreography to film direction, her films have focused on performance and choreography in everyday life, to more recently reflecting on the legacies of imperialism. Her award-winning films have been screened internationally in cinemas, galleries, TV and film festivals, including London, Rotterdam, Berlin, New York, and Vienna. Her work has recently been screened at Close-Up Film Centre, London (2023), Stuttgart FilmWinter Festival for Expanded Media (2019), Filmmuseum Munich (2017), Institut Français, Budapest (2017) and exhibited at Tabakalera Centre for Contemporary Culture , San Sebastian (2023), Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol (2022), New Museum for Art and Design, Nuremberg (2019) & Lahore Biennale 02 (2018).

Sasha Pirker is a visual artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Vienna. Her work frequently takes the process of filmic creation and perception as their theme. First and foremost, though, Pirker is interested in social issues. Sasha studied Linguistics in Vienna and Paris. Her work has been shown internationally at festivals, and exhibited in galleries and arts institutions; Schindler House (Los Angeles), MAK Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna), Kunstmuseum (Bonn), Museum of Modernism (Salzburg), Museum of Contemporary Art, Castilla y León (Spain), Kunsthaus (Graz), Chinati Foundation (Marfa, USA) and screened at Visions (Montréal), Mumok, Museum of Modern Art (Vienna), Breaking Ground: 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema, 67th Film Festival (Venice), the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris) & Anthology Films Archive (New York) and a retrospective at the VIENNALE International Film Festival (Vienna). Sasha is a lecturer in film, video and art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and runs; Size Matters; a space for art and film in Vienna.