FILMMAKER, PHOTOGRAPHER AND VIDEO ARTIST

*1972, Lausanne

On the border of fiction and documentary, the recurring themes of her work turn around human relations: codes and rituals, intimacy, alineation and margin, the balance power within diverse communities, the boundary between dream and reality, questionning the creative process and its transmission.

CURATOR, RESEARCHER, WRITER

Moving between Western, Central, and Eastern Europe and North America

They/he identifies as an interdependent art worker and Eastern European kvir. Their practice as a researcher and curator centers on experiences of displacement and diasporization, the cultural memory of the socialist past and memory loss, as well as their family history shaped by diverse forms of mobility. Their work is informed by postcolonial and queer theory, alongside decolonial approaches, and involves daily efforts in recollection, remembrance, and decolonization.

ARTIST

*1981, Zürich, lives and works in Basel

Céline Manz is a research-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice constructs multilayered narratives that reframe researched subjects within contemporary contexts. Central to her work is the use of archives and a critical engagement with systems of representation, drawing on fields such as sociology, psychoanalysis, art history, and literature.

ARTIST

*1976, France, lives and works in Barcelona

Her practice unfolds at the intersection of memory, ecology, and social transformation. She is drawn to transitional spaces—cemeteries, abandoned factories, rural workshops, intimate domestic sites—where cycles of loss and renewal become visible. Her works explore how rituals are invented, how narratives are transmitted, and how fragile bonds between people and their environments can be reimagined. Although her subjects often touch on death, exile, or trauma, humor and play remain central to her process.

WRITER

*1987, France, lives and works in Nantes

Lou Darsan studied modern literature before working for several years as a bookseller in Brest and Paris. From 2017 to 2021, she lived a nomadic life across France and Europe, years that gave rise to her debut novel, L’Arrachée belle. Her second book, Les Heures abolies, was born from a long winter stay in northern Sweden. Now based in Nantes, where her journeys eventually return, Darsan continues to explore themes of movement, solitude, and the delicate relationship between landscape and inner life.

ARTIST

*1987, Italy, lives and works in Milan

Emanuele Resce investigates the relationship between matter, the posthuman, and the dialectic between anthropogenic and geological time through sculptural practices integrating natural and industrial recycled materials. Employing archaic techniques and aleatory processes, the artist deconstructs the anthropocentric ideology of formal mastery over matter.