À l'oeuvre

2023

Residency from 01 Feb to 04 Nov 2023

2 years and 11 months ago

In 2023, À l'oeuvre ! gave four artists the opportunity to conceive, develop and produce new projects in Lafayette Anticipations' production workshops.

Discover the laureates and projects of the 2023 edition of À l'œuvre!

Stéphanie Lagarde is a visual artist and filmmaker.

Her work focuses on the strategies implemented by living beings to maintain and/or contest control of real and virtual territories through systems of signs, objects and languages. She creates conflicting scenarios from assemblages of sounds, images and texts from multiple sources.

She won the National Competition Award at Leiden Shorts in 2022; the New Discovery Award at FICBUEU in 2022; the Best Film Award in the International Competition at BISFF (Beijing) in 2021; the Grand Prize at BIEFF (Bucharest) in 2019; the First Prize in the International Competition at Short Waves Festival (Poznan) in 2019.

Her work is exhibited at EMST Athens, Greece; Plato Ostrava, Czech Republic; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; Frei_raum Q21 MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Austria; Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia; Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany; Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.

Her videos have been shown in festivals such as IFFR (Rotterdam), Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Switzerland), BISFF (Beijing), Berlin Atonal, Videonale (Bonn), Transmediale (Berlin), DOKLeipzig, Vienna Shorts (Austria), Curtocircuito (Spain), Berlinale Forum Expanded (Berlin).
 

Isaac Lythgoe is a sculptor and writer who studied painting at the Royal College of Art, London (2014).

Drawing on ideas from narrative traditions and storytelling, his work is an open discussion of forward-looking technologies and how they might influence our future societal structures. Ethics, romance and mortality are used to support a research practice that considers the integration of synthetic and biological systems as the most promising terrain for changes and challenges to human experience.

In practice, these ideas are addressed both conceptually and materially; the works appear as stories, played out in a mix of symbolic organic materials and new media techniques, with handmade and machine-made being in constant flux.  

Valentin Noujaïm is a French-Lebanese artist and filmmaker, a graduate of the Screenwriting Department at La Fémis and a former guest student at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main (Germany).

His practice explores contemporary forms of political, social and architectural collapse, and their intimate resonances. Through film and installation, he develops hybrid devices combining fiction, documentary and archives.

He is the author of the trilogy La Défense (Pacific Club, 2022; To Exist Under Permanent Suspicion, 2024; Demons to Diamonds, 2025), presented at MoMA (US), CPH:DOX (DK), IFFR (NL), the Centre Pompidou (FR), the National Gallery of Art (US), the ICA London (UK) and the Kunsthalle Basel (CH), where he presented his first institutional solo exhibition in 2025.

His works have also been shown at the Istanbul Biennial (TR), the Fondation Cartier (FR), Visions du Réel (CH), the Thessaloniki Biennial (GR) and DocLisboa (PT). His works are included in public and private collections, including the CNAP (FR), the FRAC Bretagne (FR) and Lafayette Anticipations (FR).

Lisa Signorini is a multidisciplinary artist.

She studied copper engraving and glass blowing and then moved on to video and drawing. In parallel, she has had a mediumistic practice since childhood. It is quite natural that she turned to divination which she has been practicing professionally for ten years.

Her work has been shown at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris) in the exhibition La morsure des termites, at the FRAC CORSICA and at Standard/Deluxe in Lausanne, Switzerland.

In 2024, she participated in the collective exhibition Coming Soon at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris.