Past Residents
Current Resident: Jan 1, 2025–Jun 30, 2025
La Fondation pour l'Art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon
Studio #206
Artist
Jean Claracq
Jean Claracq, a painter of miniatures and icons, bridges the gap between art history and contemporary culture. Drawing inspiration from social networks like Instagram and Grindr, his subjects often belong to the gay community. Within his paintings, they interact with numerous references to art history, particularly the traditions of Northern European schools. Rooted in traditional techniques, Claracq skillfully layers multiple levels of interpretation, offering a poignant exploration of our relationship with screens, solitude, and urban life.
Jean Claracq has exhibited work at Louvre-Lens Museum; Fondation Louis Vuitton; and Biennale de Lyon, all in France, among others.
Jean Claracq, Etudes reflet carosserie carpe-diem, 2023, water color, 63/16 × 93/8 in. (15.75 × 23.88 cm).
Jean Claracq, The enginering of consent, 2022, oil on wood, 271/2 × 195/8 in. (69.85 × 49.78 cm).
Jean Claracq, La tentation de Saint Antoine (détail), 2022, huile sur bois, 105/8 × 713/16 in. (26.92 × 19.81 cm).
Jean Claracq, Narcisse, 2019, oil on wood, 75/8 × 57/8 in. (19.3 × 14.99 cm).
Jean Claracq, Resort, 2019, oil on wood, 63/16 × 55/16 in. (15.75 × 13.46 cm).
Past Resident2025: Artis
Nardeen Srouji
Nardeen Srouji’s work delves into the gaps between stability and instability, placement and displacement, familiarity and estrangement. Transitioning between sculpture and installation, she appropriates familiar objects, images, and sounds from her surroundings, transforming them into interventions that challenge viewers to reconfigure their understanding and relationship with the world. Recently, her focus has shifted to site-specific art, exploring how processes take form within the multilayered dynamics of the body in relation to place, space, and time.
Nardeen Srouji has exhibited work at A M Qattan Foundation; Haifa Museum of Art; and Tel Aviv Museum of Art, all in Israel and in Palestine, among others.
Nardeen Srouji, Columns, 2019, site-specific installation, 65 × 150 × 16 in. (165.1 × 381 × 40.64 cm).
Nardeen Srouji, Arches, 2019, sculpture, 11 × 16 × 8 in. (27.94 × 40.64 × 20.32 cm).
Nardeen Srouji, Momentum, 2020, mixed media installation, 90 × 150 × 60 in. (228.6 × 381 × 152.4 cm).
Nardeen Srouji, Level Up, 2022, video art installation, 2 min loop.
Nardeen Srouji, Orange, 2024, sculpture, 40 × 120 × 40 in. (101.6 × 304.8 × 101.6 cm).
Current Resident: Dec 1, 2024–May 31, 2025
Canada Council for the Arts, Capsule Shanghai
Studio #213
Artist
Alice Wang
Alice Wang makes sculptures and experimental films that interrogate medium-specificity as both a conceptual schema and in the exploration of forms. Taking a phenomenological approach where the body is the site of knowledge production within a non-geocentric universe, Wang ventures to geological, technological, and archaeological sites to investigate the uncanny dimensions of the natural world. Using metamorphic substances like fossils, meteorites, plants, and heat, Wang engages sculpture as a critical framework to examine metaphysical questions about the nature of reality.
Alice Wang has exhibited work at UCCA Dune Art Museum, Qinhuangdao; Power Station of Art, Shanghai; and Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, among others.
Alice Wang, The Touching Touched, 2023, exhibition, installation view . UCCA Dune Art Museum, Qinhuangdao, China.
Alice Wang, Untitled, 2016-2023, installation view, 14th Shanghai Biennale, hand-painted glass tiles unfixed to the ground, 750 sq ft.
Alice Wang, Pyramids and Parabolas III, 2024, 16mm film and HD video, 16 min.
Alice Wang, Untitled, ultra matte black paint on 3D printed resin, dimensions variable. Kling and Bang, Iceland.
Alice Wang, Untitled, 2024, earthenware, 24 × 22 × 5,4 in. (60.96 × 55.88 × 5,4 cm). Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles.
