Artists

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

The Nomadic Island project is an artist residency project that goes beyond the usual creative residency as it includes the experience of contributing, through personal commitment, to the realisation of a social experiment. It is an experimentation platform involving an heterogeneous group of artists on one side, and an equally heterogeneous group of local residents on the other side. During a lapse of time of three weeks, the international community-based settlement is intended to create a space to let synergies arise around the theme of alternative ways of living and working.

Learn more about the artists that will be creating and representing their work at Nomadic Island by clicking on their names!

Blanca Alonso (ES)

Blanca Alonso 1980 Fine Arts Madrid.
Blanca Alonso comes from a family in which art, drawing and children's literature were part of her environment when she was a child.
In 2009 she created the company Coloradas, a children's theatre project, where the illustrations are created live.
As a result of this work, the artist began to make projections on façades, moving more into the field of ephemeral installations and urban projections.

Discipline: Video / Performance

Stephane Billot (FR)

Stéphane billot is a french artist, born in 1986. He works and lives in Grenoble and in other places.
He « hijacks » norms, signs or values in order to interrogate the border between poetical and political, art and daily life, creations and social interactions. It could be summarize as an interstitial practice, or it could not be summarize, it depends on the weather.

Discipline: Installation / Contextual Art

matteo demaria (FR)

matteo demaria, born in 1994 in oxford (ru), lives and practices in marseille.
since his diploma at esbanmsn (nantes, fr), his research is based on the notion of "putting into discussion" and takes shape in editorial formats.
to put in discussion represents the possibility of making critical voices emerge from conversations, confrontations, and the assemblage of diverse words...
the results of artistic-poetic experiences, based on the interaction with other individualities, are recorded in publications, so that what is said and done, according to a precise moment, can say and do something else - according to other moments.

Discipline: Visual Art / Literature

Anna Van Eck (DE)

Anna van Eck is a sculptural artist living and working in Cologne. Trained in applied Arts and Design as well as in crafts (goldsmith) her works are questioning the boundaries of the conventional. Her main research is about the need for society to deal with the decade of change, to reflect comfort zones and to rethink the usual. Since 2018 she works as a freelance artist - ongoing.

Discipline: Installation / Design

Joshua Le Galienne (UK)

Joshua Le Gallienne (b. 1985) is a British artist exploring sustainable and unconventional approaches to the production and perception of acoustic sound within an artistic context. Through sculpture, installation, and performance, the artist stages intimate experiences that explore the relationships between sound, physical materials and environmental phenomena. Joshua’s work is regularly exhibited and performed in the UK and internationally; operating primarily outside of a traditional gallery context. Their work is unmediated and mostly undocumented, in line with this the artist has no website or online presence.

Discipline: Sound Art

Chloé Macary-Carney (FR)

Chloé Macarz-Carney is a French-American architect, born in 1994. She lives and works in Paris. In February 2021, she obtained the French license of architect Habilitation à la Maîtrise d’Œuvre en Nom Propre at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette in Paris, France from which she graduated in 2019. She defends the idea that architecture is a social art, space being a medium to which we all have access to and which we all have our own experience of, every day. Thus, her work is trans-disciplinary and her projects take on various mediums and are shared via a variety of formats. She wants to make architecture, and especially public space, more accessible and inclusive by creating spaces and projects that allow for dialogue, exchange, and the listening and welcoming of others. She has been working on the question of gender since 2018 with the project of a nomadic and experimental space called Woman Cave, created with artist Léticia Chanliau and anthropologist Aleksandra Belova. In March 2021, they published a book dedicated to the question of the place of women in architectural space and the space of the city. This project allows them to approach a more theoretical side of the questions raised during the Woman workshop conducted in July-August 2019.

Discipline: Architecture / Design

Mattia Mura (IT)

Mattia Mura is a documentary and visual artist based in Italy. His practice revolves around the concept of limits (of life, of perception, of art, of geography...) as an opportunity to increase consciousness and understanding.
Mattia has exhibited projects in a solo and group exhibition in Italy, Macedonia, Belgium, and Slovakia. He screened his movies in India, Japan, Italy, Germany, Canada, Bulgaria, and the UK. He has been a recipient of international art residencies at Selina (Ecuador 2021), Bridgeguard (Slovakia 2020-2021), and Fabrica Research Center (Italy 2015-2018).

Discipline: Film Documentation

Cristina Picco (LU)

In the last ten years I’ve been active in various projects of social entrepreneurship and civic engagement. Given my backgrounds in finance and town planning, I’m fascinated in how to hack tools and languages proper to economics or urban policy for the use of societal change.
I’ve recently obtained a bachelor in “Textile creation” from the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Arlon (B).
My artistic practice reflects very much this journey: I love experimenting and crossing the formal borders among disciplines and I found in art a very generous practice that allows it in a playful way.

Discipline: Multimedia Art

Valentin Poudret (FR)

Valentin Poudret "Budwarrior" is a French-Caribbean visual artist working mainly drawing and woodcarving.
Transdiciplinary artist, he questions our contemporary society by creating works related to ancient cultures and their
relationship to nature.

Discipline: Visual Art / Poetry

Cie Tadlachance (FR)

Madeleine Doré comes from Quebec and Françoise Rod from Switzerland. We started our collaboration with an art of mobility in 2002, in the south of France. Our European nomadic projects are developing participatory projects based on natural elements. Our reflexive installations invite people to take an attentive look at the world. Our contextual and mobile vision interrogates the living in place and space.

Discipline: Nomadic / Contextual Art

Stay tuned to learn more about the artists’ projects!