Past Residents
Past Resident2012: Ministry of Culture of the Flemish Community Visual Arts Department
Nicolas Provost
Nicolas Provost’s work reflects on the grammar of cinema, the human condition in our collective film memory and the relation between visual art and the cinematic experience. His films provoke both recognition and alienation, and succeed in catching our expectations in an unraveling game of mystery and abstraction. With manipulations of time, codes and form, cinematographic and narrative language is analyzed, accents are shifted and new stories are told.
Nicolas Provost (born in Ronse, Belgium) lives and works in Brussels following 10 years in Norway. His films have been exhibited worldwide and have earned awards and screenings at prestigious festivals including the Sundance Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Berlinale, San Sebastian Film Festival and Locarno Film Festival. Solo exhibitions include The Seattle Art Museum; Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France; Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium; and Haunch of Venison, London. His award-winning first feature film The Invader had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival 2011.
Nicolas Provost, Stardust, 2010, Video projection with sound, 240 in. Courtesy of Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp and Haunch of Venison, London
Nicolas Provost, Suspension, 2007, Video projection with sound, 48 in. Courtesy of Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp and Haunch of Venison, London
Nicolas Provost, Long Live the New Flesh, 2009, Video projection with sound. Courtesy of Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp and Haunch of Venison, London
Nicolas Provost, Plot Point, 2007, Video projection with sound, 180 in
Nicolas Provost, Moving Stories, 2011, Video projection with sound, 84 in. Courtesy of Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp and Haunch of Venison, London
Residents from Belgium
Past Resident2012: FONCA - Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
Nuria Montiel Perez Grovas
Nuria Montiel’s work employs social practices through participatory strategies for collective creation in public spaces. Graphic print is used as a way of representing and documenting process but also as a mechanism of exchange and collective expression. Monitel’s current project Mobile Printing Press looks at diverse protest and social manifestations in Mexico, printing phrases that represent the resistance voice of citizens as a way to understand the socio-political reality of present-day Mexico.
Nuria Montiel (born 1982 Mexico) Studied visual arts at Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas-UNAM. She has been awarded with the fellowship Jovenes Creadores (FONCA) and and the prize Permio Nacional de Arte Jóven Aguascalientes XXVII. In Mexico, she has participated in various group shows at Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Galería Kurimanzutto, as well as Centre of Contemporary Art, Varsow; and ACVIC Center, Barcelona. Nuria is a founding member of the collectives La Galería de Comercio (a non-profit initiative that presents public art projects on the street) and Grupo JOKUS.
Events & Exhibitions
Nuria Montiel: Music Footprints
December 17–December 17, 2012
Nuria Montiel Perez Grovas, Mobile Printing Press, 2010, Wheels, etching press, talc, spatulas, recycled paper, tripod, video camera, and monitor, 35 × 78 × 24 in. (88.9 × 198.12 × 60.96 cm)
Nuria Montiel Perez Grovas, Imprement Movil/Printing Public Demands, Topilejo, MPJD, 2011, printing workshop, 3 hrs
Nuria Montiel Perez Grovas, No Debieron Morir, 2011, Wall sticker and digital photo, 9 × 12 in. (22.86 × 30.48 cm)
Nuria Montiel Perez Grovas, Cadaver Exquisito, 2011, Prints on wall, 155 × 92 in. (393.7 × 233.68 cm)
Nuria Montiel Perez Grovas, Cumulus/Mexico City Complaints Mailbox, 2009, Performance 300 balloons and 300 paper complaints, Dimensions variable
Residents from Mexico
Past Resident2012: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
Ambie Abaño
Ambie Abaño’s shift from painting to printmaking brought her to an exploration of the medium as she investigates portraiture in relation to both material and process. From two-dimensional prints, her experimental works led to the creation of portraits and figures in sculpture, mixed media works, and installations, always with an element of traditional printmaking processes.
Ambie Abaño (born Manila 1967) abandoned the practice of architecture in favor of being a visual artist. She exhibits widely in the Philippines and across Asia. Abaño is a faculty member at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. For the past six years, she served as president of the Philippine Association of Printmakers and remains active in their training program. Her solo exhibitions include: SurFACE (2011); Sanctuaire des memoires (2012) at the Alliance Francaise de Manille, and TransFIGURATION at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2006). She participated in A/P: Analog Playground, Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila; The Speaking House, Kerala, India (2012); Asian International Art Exhibition (2007-2011), and Open Studios at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2011).
Ambie Abaño, Trapped, 2009, Stuffed prints on textile, 24 × 24 × 24 in. (60.96 × 60.96 × 60.96 cm)
Ambie Abaño, Prayer, 2009, Installation with woodcut on textile and plastic
Ambie Abaño, Self Awareness, 2011, Oil painting and woodcut on phillippine mahogany, 60 × 72 in. (152.4 × 182.88 cm)
Ambie Abaño, Diaries, 2010, Woodcut on recycled wood carved into books
