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, 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, 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, lives and works in Nantes

LouDarsan 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, 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.

ARTISTS

*1986 and 1986, live and work in Guangzhou

Their practices often respond to specific sites in a playful way. Through humor, they engage with lived experiences and inner landscapes in contemporary China, gently disrupting the tensions of everyday life. Drawing on a wide range of materials, forms, textures, and sensations from daily life, literary spaces, and art history, they weave these references together to create environments open to multiple interpretations. Their work unfolds across various media, including drawing, installation, illustration, and artist’s books.

ARTIST, PHOTOGRAPHER

*1975, lives and works in Buenos Aires

Laura Ortego is an artist born in Argentine Patagonia. Her main practice is photography; she also makes films, writes, draws, establishes relationships with her context, and documents them. Her work explores the construction of identities particularly those of women and diverse communities as well as transitions: from childhood to adulthood, transitions of sex and gender, and the shift from physical bodies to digital ones. It also engages with Eastern cultures, migration, and cultural syncretism. Since 2010, part of her projects have been developed in Asia, where she travels regularly.

ARTIST

*1976, lives and works in Rome

Marco Milia’s artistic process is grounded in a sustained investigation of space, understood as both a perceptual and relational experience. Each work is conceived as a device that activates a dialogue between environment, structure, and viewer. The starting point is often a close analysis of context whether architectural or natural from which a site-specific approach emerges. The work is never autonomous but integrated into its surroundings.