Creation Residencies 2025 / 2026
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o Filipe Vilas Boas (Artist associated with the Edition 2026) :
The Re:Public Project, or how the art of balance makes it possible to recreate—based on a spatial conception of the distribution of power and governance—an agora centered on the monumental barycenter of a board game on a human scale. The Biennale’s partners are invited to take over the agora for performative research and performances.
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o Macarena Vilches
A film project exploring the interconnections and distinctive features of bodily movement, which functions both as a marker of identity and as a performative gesture. The dynamics of the body embody a story and a memory, and reveal a social function.
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o Sacha Rey (Winner 2024)
“Etat des lieux des forces en présence » is a parodic documentary conceived as an “Ethological Road Trip” combined with workshops exploring the dynamics of power and domination between individuals; how to care for the collective, and resilient forms of engagement.
o Melisa Yagmur Saydi (winner 2023)
« Ramblings on Survival » was conceived in 2025 during the Creative Residency of OVNi Sud Emergence Award, of which Melisa Yağmur Saydı was the laureate. This artistic endeavor was made possible through the support of the Région Sud; the Creative Residency is further sustained by the generous patronage of the Hôtel WindsoR.
Melisa wrote and directed a digital animated short film for a digital installation.
The work “Ramblings on Survival” emerges from the tension between the calm of the French Riviera and a world in crisis. The protagonist wanders along an abandoned, ghostly coastline. The hotels evoke both her place of residence and Trump’s overt colonial fantasy of transforming Gaza into “the French Riviera of the Middle East.” The “Elonsters”—robotic monsters that suck energy from humans through cables—embody the growing stranglehold of the technocratic elite. Warplanes signal the escalation of conflicts, while “investor ducks” represent an individualistic and materialistic culture, fueled by a spirit of paranoid survival. Against this unsettling backdrop, the work reflects on the questions the artist faced upon leaving activism in 2025, as fascism and violence were on the rise: what does it mean to survive in a neoliberal world, and how can one balance self-protection with support for others ?
