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ÎLE/MER/FROID
Resident
01.01.2021 - 31.01.2021
Medici Residency with the région Occitanie
Visual arts
Biography
ÎLE/MER/FROID is an artistic entity formed in 2014. Winners of the Prix Occitanie – Médicis in 2020, the Académie de France in Rome is delighted to welcome them for a month-long stay.
Composed of Antony Lille, Hugo Lemaire and Boris Geoffroy, based respectively in Sète, Paris and Marseille, ÎLE/MER/FROID is a shared artistic practice, defined as a fourth body taking shape during periods of intense work, creation and living together. This practice is situated and developed in the landscape, and manifests itself in the design of production systems that include the fabrication of tools, supports and materials in the process. This shared dynamic and its working ecology – the triangular relationship between group, environment and production – are the main driving forces. PAL, a live improvised experimental music group, can be seen as the sonic side of the same relationship.
Project
The project they are developing at Villa Medici takes as its starting point the practice of dyeing with wild plants that they are developing in their latest productions, to put into perspective the relationship between the city and nature. The aim is to apprehend the city as a zone of great porosity, to rediscover its original relief, to detect the witnesses of a muted struggle, in the artificialization of its peripheries by the built environment and the occupation of every interstice by the wild, but also to highlight the uses and representations of nature present in ornamentation, art, architecture, myths and the culture that has developed from these complex relationships.
Medici Residency Occitanie
Application 17.02 - 31.03.2025
Created in 2018 by the Occitanie Region in partnership with the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici, the Price Occitanie - Medici dedicated to young contemporary creation aims to develop the international influence of talent from Occitanie by welcoming them to the Villa Medici for a research and creative stay of several months. Each year, the price attracts around a hundred candidates - visual and visual artists - eager to take advantage of the opportunity offered by a residency at one of Europe's most emblematic art centers, in contact with other artists from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. Each year, the winner of the Price Occitanie - Medici is selected on the basis of an application and an audition of the shortlisted candidates, each of whom presents his or her project to a jury made up of representatives of the Region, the Director of Villa Medici and associated experts.
