Residency VILA SUL

I graduated in Arts from the National University of Tucumán and hold a PhD in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. I´m currently a Professor in the Fashion and Textile Design Program at the National University of Tucumán. Since 2012 I have worked with Randeras de El Cercado, a community of traditional weavers. Collaborating with curator Andrei Fernández, I coordinate Textiles Semillas, a union of weavers, artists, and activists from northwestern Argentina. My work features in the permanent collections of the Modern Museum of Art in Buenos Aires, the Palais de Glace in Buenos Aires, the Castagnino MACRO in Rosario, and numerous Argentinian private collections. I have participated in various artist residencies, including Curadora (Santa Fe, Argentina), Fundación Marso (CDM) and Delfina Foundation (London). I'm in the roster of de Sousa gallery.

Arthur Desmarteaux is an interdisciplinary artist from Canada. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Visual Arts and New Media from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). Moreover, he earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Studio Arts from Concordia University, specializing in printmaking.
He has exhibited his work in numerous galleries in Canada and internationally. When he was invited to an artist residency at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Goyang, South Korea, he created a large-scale photomontage inspired by the landscapes of Seoul. Prior to that, he produced multidisciplinary works in Australia, Mexico, France, and Ireland as part of residencies and exhibitions. He also represented Canada as a visual artist at the 7th Jeux de la Francophonie in Nice.

Recently, Arthur collaborated as a live electronic musician on “Cloud Bodies”, an immersive dance production presented in planetariums across the United States and Germany. He has developed several multichannel soundtracks for installations in art galleries, for video projection mapping projects in public spaces, and for shadow theater performances. He composes electronic music using a variety of software programs, plugins, and controllers.

Since 2006, he has co-run the artistic production company Egotrip Productions with Allison Moore and developed numerous shadow-play projects that use video projections as light sources.

Jumoke Sanwo is a Lagos-based, practice-led researcher and curator whose work investigates history, memory, and the ways narratives are formed, transmitted, and embodied in bodies, spaces, and material forms. Her ongoing research, Isàlè̩ Apótí: Lace, Memory, and the Afterlife of Trade, examines symbolic narratives embedded in industrial embroidery, commonly known as African lace. She considers how these materials have impacted indigenous textile practices, including àṣọ-òkè weaving and indigo dye, using lace as a metaphor for colonial intimacy and economic asymmetry in her home country, Nigeria. During her time in Bahia, she will extend this research along the transatlantic route, focusing on the spirituality and symbolism of white lace garments worn by Ìyálòrìṣà and Iyalorixás in both Lagos and Bahia. These garments provide insight into the sacred ontology of textiles, functioning as ritual markers and as channels of ancestral memory, divine communication, and postcolonial identity formation.
Sanwo engages these themes through time-based media, thread lettering, and drawing.

Lucimélia Romão is a visual artist, author and performer. She holds a Master’s degree in Performing Arts and Cultural Mediation from ESCH/SP. Moreover, she has completed postgraduate studies in Art at UFPEL/RS and is currently studying Drawing and Fine Art at UFBA/BA. In addition, she holds a Bachelor’s degree in Theatre from UFSJ/MG. As an actress, she completed the specialist theatre course at the ‘Maestro Fêgo Camargo’ Municipal School of Art in Taubaté, São Paulo, in 2013. Lucimélia Romão’s artistic work straddles the visual and performingarts–languages which the artist develops and seeks to blend together in order to address the urgent need to explore the theme of life. Her focus is on the lives of those denied their fundamental rights, as Brazilian laws have been crafted since the country’s colonial era to reinforce this denial. The artistic actions proposed by Romão are therefore dramatic cries for an end to barbarism. Her works spring from Romão’s urgent desire to address the violence that the hegemonic state inflicts daily upon marginalised bodies.