Past Residents
Past Resident2010: Danish Arts Foundation
Thomas Poulsen (FOS)
FOS’ practice investigates how physical space achieves significance through social interaction and how the aesthetics of social space challenge and transform social constructs. Referring to his approach as Social Design, FOS suggests solutions through the investigation of the physicality of social relations. ‘I see the world as constituted of layers – only a small part visible to us – that exists as a reaction of what lies underneath. What we learn and perceive is in our behavior, what isn’t learned is a part of our reactions. Our social construct is a machine in this framework.’
Thomas Poulsen (FOS). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2010: Ministry of Culture of the Flemish Community Visual Arts Department
Maryam Najd
Educated in Teheran, Iran and Antwerp, Belgium, two cultural and artistic extremes, Najd’s painterly practice shows a dialectic approach in both form and content. Leaving the traditional and conflict-laden context of the Middle East for Western ‘freedom,’ Najd develops a language merging both worlds in a critical yet respectful discourse. Combining her perception of reality and the reality produced by media, she researches the anecdotal strength of the image and its message, while juxtaposing it with the idea of painting exemplifying freedom of thought. Najd lives and works in Antwerp and Berlin.
Maryam Najd was part of There Is No Flag Large Enough, a collaborative project with Alberto Borea and Stefano Cagol.
Maryam Najd, Green-Wave Heroes, 2009, Oil on canvas, 311/2 × 231/2 in. (80.01 × 59.69 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Maryam Najd, Mr. President, 2009-2010, Oil on canvas, 1511/16 × 231/2 in. (39.88 × 59.69 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Maryam Najd, Last Legs, 2007, Oil on canvas, 231/2 × 291/2 in. (59.69 × 74.93 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Maryam Najd, Masquerade, 2010, Oil on canvas, 63 × 51 in. (160.02 × 129.54 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Maryam Najd, Spectacle Trauma, 2008, Oil on canvas, 1511/16 × 231/2 in. (39.88 × 59.69 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Belgium
Past Resident2011: Consejeria de Cultura de la Region de Murcia
Juanli Carrion
Juanli Carrión was born in Yecla, Spain in 1982. His artistic practice arises out of an interest in elements/actions that mankind creates/uses to represent reality or identity, and the social-politic relationships that these elements/actions have with existing operating systems. These concerns emerge out of social and political issues surrounding human behavior, both individually and collectively, and speak to the limits of human existence through questioning strategies of representing reality and reconstructing identity.
His artistic practice is developed through media such as installation, video or sculpture and always has a strong photographic background. A photograph is in many occasions the final result or a starting point, as a way of thinking and a key tool of his creative process. Among most recent projects are Atlas Shrugged, Kei-Seki, On Stage-Monuments of Melancholia. Carrión has a B.A in Fine Arts at The University of Grenade and Saint Dennis Paris VIII and an M.F.A in Visual Arts at Polytechnic University of Valencia.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Ok Hyun Ahn (South Korea) and Juanli Carrion (Spain)
July 27, 2010
Juanli Carrion, Intermision - Mysterious Incidente In Lake Desmet, 2010, C-print sobre dibond, 191/2 × 141/2 in. (49.53 × 36.83 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Juanli Carrion, 2nd Act - Fetterman Massacree, 2010, C-print sobre , 67 × 45 in. (170.18 × 114.3 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Juanli Carrion, Keisho-Seki, 2009-10, C-print on dibond, 59 × 391/2 in. (149.86 × 100.33 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Juanli Carrion, Landscape #13, 2008-09, Duratrans in a golden light box, 22 × 55 × 4 in. (55.88 × 139.7 × 10.16 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Juanli Carrion, Ogon-Seki, 2009-10, C-print on dibond, 59 × 391/2 in. (149.86 × 100.33 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
