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Current Resident: Sep 1, 2025–Aug 31, 2026

OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway

Studio #220

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Wendimagegn Belete

Wendimagegn Belete is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the complex interplay of culture, memory, identity, heritage, spirituality, and epigenetic inheritance—a form of memory transferred across generations in unconventional ways. He works across diverse mediums, including installation, moving images, painting, photography, textiles, and found objects. By interweaving physical and digital archival materials, he creates richly layered works that craft dynamic narratives, traversing both temporal and spatial boundaries.
Wendimagegn Belete has exhibited work at  The National Museum in Olso, Norway; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, and Pinchuk Art Centre, Ukraine, among others.
wendimagegnbelete.com

Current Resident: Oct 1, 2025–Dec 31, 2025

Studio #305

Artist

Rafaela Foz

Rafaela Foz works with conceptual contrasts, exploring boundaries between matter and image, weight and lightness, presence and impermanence. Her multimedia practice employs materials such as charcoal dust, real and false stones, minerals, and collected objects as vectors of time — geological, bodily, and historical. Moving between installation, drawing, projection, and collage, she weaves elements that evoke fragmented landscapes, dense atmospheres, and materiality — always in tension with aesthetic contemplation and the systems that shape perception.

Rafaela Foz has exhibited work at Paço das Artes; Brazilian Art Museum; and Espaço Delirium, all in Brazil, among others.

rafaelafoz.com

Current Resident: Oct 1, 2025–Nov 30, 2025

Canada Council for the Arts

Studio #208

Artist

Ghazaleh Avarzamani

Ghazaleh Avarzamani’s research examines and disrupts hidden social hierarchies. Through her practice, she probes the fallacies and inequities embedded in inherited knowledge and cultural manuals. By crafting visual narratives that both deconstruct and reconstruct time and space, she reconfigures materials to expose dysfunction and failure, drawing on collective human memory and overlooked knowledge. Her work uncovers the extraordinary within the ordinary, offering new ways to represent what is too often taken for granted.

Ghazaleh Avarzamani has exhibited work at Hayward Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto; and Frieze Sculpture, London, among others.

ghazalehavarzamani.com

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