Past Residents
Past Resident2024: Vision Fund
Verónica Gaona
Verónica Gaona is a Mexican American multidisciplinary artist whose work is deeply influenced by the current socio-political climate. She explores themes of architecture and migration, utilizing remnants of death and truck parts to represent the hybrid nature of remittance-built environments that span international borders. Gaona incorporates the perspectives of displaced and exploited communities, highlighting aspects of the diaspora such as opacity, transnationality, and impermanence. Her practice challenges traditional approaches to memorialization and seeks to subvert established power structures.
Verónica Gaona has exhibited work at Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles; Lawndale Art Center, Texas; and Blaffer Art Museum, Texas, among others.
Verónica Gaona, to know and to dream at the same time, migrant metropolis, 2023-present, Ford F-150 body parts, aluminum sheets, archived prints on aluminum sheets, and vinyl, dimensions variable
Verónica Gaona, Spanning Worlds, 2022-present, steel rod, eight migrant caps, and Ford F-150 truck shattered polarized window glass
Verónica Gaona, Familia Gomez, 2024, caps and Ford F-150 truck tinted and translucent glass shards, dimensions variable
Verónica Gaona, To know and to dream at the same time, 2022-present, Ford F-150 body parts, aluminum sheets, archived prints on aluminum sheets, and vinyl, dimensions variable
Verónica Gaona, Northless, 2022, shattered Ford F-150 truck tinted window glass, and migrant caps and embroidered text, dimensions variable
Residents from United States
Past Resident2024: Danish Arts Foundation
Maja Malou Lyse
Maja Malou Lyse is a multidisciplinary artist exploring themes that address the complexities of image and pleasure politics through an immersive practice. Using mediated, image-based platforms, which are deeply embedded in our daily lives—such as magazines, television shows and digital medias—Lyse’s works highlight the ways in which our desires are deeply connected to the cultural and political realities of our time.
Maja Malou Lyse has exhibited work at Kunstmuseum Brandts; ARoS Aarhus Art Museum; and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, all in Denmark, among others.
Maja Malou Lyse, Antibodies, 2022, video, 10 min. Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Denmark
Maja Malou Lyse, Antibodies, 2022, video, 10 min. Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Denmark
Maja Malou Lyse, WAP, 2023, video, 17 min
Maja Malou Lyse, Pressure Picture, 2023, video billboard, 2 min. Commision for Roskilde Festival 2023 in collaboration with Esben Weile Kjær
Maja Malou Lyse, Untitled, 2019, sculpture. Courtesy of Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Denmark
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2024: Artis
Abed Elmajid Shalabi
Abed Elmajid Shalabi investigates how technological objects construct emotional and cultural shifts and alter our connection to our body, gender, and self. His installations link homophobia, shame and sexual dissatisfaction to the political power structure that reinforces such dynamics and produces them.
Abed Elmajid Shalabi has exhibited work at Center for Contemprary Arts, Tel Aviv; and Hamiltonian Artists, Washington DC, among others.
Abed Elmajid Shalabi, Hold at Armpit Level (white-and-blue version), 2024, custom-made sign, glazed ceramic, and steel, 121/2 × 60 × 48 in. (31.75 × 152.4 × 121.92 cm)
Abed Elmajid Shalabi, When, Love, 2024, custom-made sign,steel, 9 × 18 × 21/4 in. (22.86 × 45.72 × 5.71 cm)
Abed Elmajid Shalabi, Truck Bed, 2024, fiberglass-reinforced cement, pigment, Home Depot 5-gallon buckets, glazed ceramic, unfired clay, and one-pint paint cans, 26 × 731/2 × 811/4 in. (66.04 × 186.69 × 206.37 cm)
Abed Elmajid Shalabi, Two Seats, Two Buckets, 2024, glazed ceramic, used 5-gallon bucket, and paint can, 26 × 433/4 × 181/2 in. (66.04 × 111.12 × 46.99 cm)
Abed Elmajid Shalabi, Two Hundred Ninety-Seven Holes, 2024, custom-made signs, steel posts, glazed ceramics, unfired clay, and screw, 6 × 36 × 601/4 in. (15.24 × 91.44 × 153.03 cm)