A Palme d'Or and two Goncourt prizes in artist residency in the United States: the filmmaker Julia Ducournau and the writers Leïla Slimani and Nicolas Mathieu will count in 2023 among seventy French and foreign artists installed throughout the country for projects artistic and cultural exchanges, announced Monday the French authorities in New York.
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For 70 artist residencies lasting one to three months - traveling or located in New York and other major American cities - Paris has allocated 1.8 million euros (25,000 euros per artist), indicated Gaëtan Bruel, director of the Villa Albertine, the cultural cooperation hub of the French Embassy in the United States.
"
By inviting its residents to come out of the walls of the residence, to form a community with the Americans they meet (...), the Villa Albertine is also betting on helping to change the way Americans look at the French cultural landscape
", still considered across the Atlantic as elitist and classic, pleaded the diplomat during a presentation to the press.
In fact, "
he does not
", argued Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (Moma), who participated in the selection of eclectic projects in all the arts (cinema, literature, theater, architecture, painting, plastic art, art visual, music, dance...).
Increase fame
Thus, to prepare for her next film, Julia Ducournau, winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2021 for
Titane
, will dive into the world of "
tattoo artists
" in New York and will survey dermatologist surgeons from a hospital in the megalopolis, according to the Villa Albertine.
French Moroccan Leïla Slimani, winner of the Goncourt Prize in 2016 for
Chanson douce
(translated as
The Perfect Nanny
), “
will research the Muslim community
” of New York and “
the little-known place that Islam occupies
” in the city and in the country.
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Le Goncourt 2018, Nicolas Mathieu, wants to "
immerse himself in Oxford, in Mississippi, birthplace of (William) Faulkner, reread the work of the Nobel Prize (for literature in 1949,
editor's note
), see and feel this America not so far from the France he describes, and working on his next novel
", according to the Villa Albertine.
For Mr. Bruel, the objective of these residencies, which will also include architects Frédéric Chartier and Pascale Dalix in Chicago and visual artist Sara Ouhaddou in Houston and Los Angeles, is to increase the reputation of French and Francophone artists in the United States. United, especially in New York, which according to him remains the world capital of the arts.
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