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Fellow
2023 - 2024
Plastic arts
Madison Bycroft (Australia, 1987) lives and works in Marseille. A graduate of the University of South Australia and the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, she works with video, sculpture and performance. Madison Bycroft’s research extends to forms of reading and writing, expression and refusal, exploring how we might reimagine “reading” (in its extended sense) and understanding, not as accomplishment, but as relationship. Madison Bycroft has presented her work in Beirut, Singapore and New York, as well as in France at CAC Brétigny, the Rennes Biennial and the Palais de Tokyo. In 2022, several performance projects led him to present his work at the Art Basel fair in Switzerland, in Cordoba’s botanical gardens and at MAXXI L’Aquila. More recently, he presented Joystick, a video game created in collaboration with Ubisoft.
At Villa Medici, Madison Bycroft is conducting a three-part research program to develop a film project entitled Cena Trimalchio, an adaptation of fragments 28 to 79 of Petronius’ Satyricon. The first part of the research focuses on Roman elegance in the age of Nero and Petronius, and includes a study of the Satyricon. The second section focuses on the dinner table and the feast, while the final section concerns the “augur”, an ancient Roman figure capable of interpreting fortuitous phenomena as omens. Attention to the horizon, goal-directed thought, wandering narratives and disorientation will link these different investigations.
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.