Clelia Coussonnet (photo by Emile Barret/Hors Pistes)
This September, Marseilles-based writer and curator Clelia Coussonnet will begin the Paris/Vancouver Curatorial Residency, hosted by Griffin Art Projects in Vancouver.
Inaugurated in 2021, the residency is hosted in collaboration with the Cité internationale des arts in France and is supported by the Embassy of France in Canada and the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris.
It alternates between Paris and Vancouver every four years, bringing Coussonnet to develop her research at Griffin Art Projects in Vancouver this year.
Missla Libsekai from Vancouver received the first residency in 2021, which took place at the Cite interinternationale des arts in Paris.
During Coussonnet's three-month residency, she will explore the politics of botany, waterways and soil. In particular, she hopes to interrogate the relationship between plants and territory.
"I hope to understand how the colonial history of Canada has made use of plants to assert power over territories, consider the meanders of the city's waterways and aqueous reserves, and listen to the legacies and murmurs that lie in the earth and sediments," she says.
Coussonnet has curated exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati; Bildmuseet, in Sweden; Le Cube, in Morocco; and MeetFactory, in the Czech Republic. Her curatorial work encourages cultural conversations about the ways visual cultures consider political, social and spiritual issues in other disciplines.
The residency offers travel, accommodation and a stipend for three months, including a budget for production and public programming, during which Coussonnet will share her research.
To learn more, visit Griffin Art Projects.
Source: Griffin Art Projects
