RESIDENCE / EMBARKING
Embarking
Residencia de investigación, experimentación y cocreación
Embarking was the first artist’s residency carried out by Ses12naus – our ‘Edition 0’.
In September 2016, 12 artists from different backgrounds and disciplines arrived from across Europe - like 12 ships to Ibiza – to be influenced and inspired by the local history, culture, and population; and produce new work. Based on a finca in the interior of the island, the residency aimed to encourage experimentation, collaboration and dialogue, as well as to create links with Ibizan communities, beginning to contribute to the development of the island’s cultural fabric.
Nora Silva
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Multidisciplinary artist Nora Silva defines herself as someone who makes things. On a deeper level, she can be described as an artist, independent researcher, and Spanish-Chilean writer based in London, who after graduating in Fine Arts travelled around Latin America working as a cook.
Her art focuses on social awareness and invites viewers to reflect on our responses to issues facing today’s societies such as the loss of privacy, climate change, migration policies, the consumer society and the touristification of cities.
Her work is typically action-based performance supported by installations and objects.
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Isha Bøhling
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British-Danish artist Isha Bøhling works in the fields of painting, sculpture, sound and curating. She composes with paint, draws with her voice, sculpts instruments and mounts performances through object and light installations. She has shown her work in Europe, Asia, the United States and South America.
Appreciated by audiences and critics alike, she has received numerous awards for her eclectic and unique creative approach. A recipient of The Freelands Foundation Award in 2020, she was also shortlisted for the East London Painting Prize in 2014 and was a finalist for the John Moores 23 Painting Prize in 2003, the Artsway Prize 2005, the Red Mansions Prize 2002 and shortlisted for the Observer Student Prize 2002.
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Damien Poulain
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Damien Poulain is an artist working in design, architecture and the built and natural environments. His practice transmutes influences from Shintoist, primitive and heraldic symbology, as well as contemporary material and digital culture, to propose a universal visual language. Through an evolving range of formats including textiles, painting, sculpture, and ephemeral architectural volumes, he devises glyphic systems of geometry and colour. These codes raise questions about the ways in which humans relate to each other, to their surroundings, and to the mystery of existence.
Poulain’s work is nomadic and contextual in nature and ranges from monumental interventions to small-scale paintings, which he produces in ongoing series linked to place and time. In addition to public spaces, which are Poulain’s preferred canvas, his work has been displayed in solo exhibitions in London’s Kemistry Gallery and KK Outlet; in Tokyo at Calm and Punk Gallery and Claska; and in group exhibitions at the Museum of Graphic Design in Breda, Holland, and the 21_21 Museum in Tokyo.
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Ian Monroe
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New York artist and writer Ian Monroe conceptualises to perfection the promise and disappointment of modernity. He first came to public attention in 2003 with a large-scale exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, and since then his artistic output and fame have continued to grow.
His work is present in numerous private collections as well as important international museums such as the Aarhus Kunstmuseum (Denmark), the Saint Louis Art Museum (USA), the Hamburger Banhof (Germany) and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (Spain).
As a writer he has published articles in The Guardian, Art Review and the specialised publication Collage, assembling contemporary art.
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Jesús de Miguel
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Visual and multimedia artist Jesús de Miguel lives on the island and so knows Ibiza well. A graduate in Fine Arts from the University of Salamanca, he has studied the anthropology and creative processes of art, animation and 3D design.
He is particularly interested in painting, and explores its various facets, from purely pictorial art to technologically based artistic expression.
The visual poetry of his work swims in an ocean of abstractions where the defined becomes less clear-cut and forms merge until they are reborn with a life of their own that goes beyond the limits of what is expected.
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Juan Gómez Alemán
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Artist and cultural manager. Founder and director of La Juan Gallery, the first gallery in Spain dedicated to the living arts. Its practice centres around overhauling the clichés associated with performance art and creating networks between artists and the public out of its contents. He has collaborated with institutions such as the Instituto Cervantes, Central Saint Martins (London), Teatros del Canal (Madrid), Cidade da Cultura (Santiago de Compostela) and Matadero (Madrid), among others.
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Violeta Janeiro
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Violeta Janeiro is a key name in collaborative art. An independent art curator and researcher with an ample background in contemporary art, her work examines different collaborative art practices, the politics of knowledge, and alternative modes of producing, receiving and channelling art.
She has worked at the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Spanish Consulate in Shanghai and Summa Art Fair. She directed the Galería Helga de Alvear in Madrid and has promoted various research projects.
She holds a degree in Art History from the University of Santiago de Compostela and a MA in Fine Arts from Kingston University, London.
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Zeltia Montes
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The name Zeltia Montes is closely linked to music and cinema. A Galician composer specialising in film soundtracks, she began composing at the early age of 9.
She studied piano and music theory at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid and specialised in modern music. She also trained at Berklee College of Music in Boston and composed her first soundtrack in 2008 for the film Pradolongo, by Ignacio Vilar.
Her awards include the Jerry Goldsmith Award, the Mestre Mateo Award, the Gold Medal for excellence at the Park City Fil Music Festival, and the Goya for best original score for the film El buen patrón.
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Mauricio Freyre
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Mauricio Freyre is a Peruvian researcher, audiovisual artist and filmmaker with a background in architecture. Interested in how film and architecture overlap, his projects seek out the interfaces of celluloid and architecture, with special emphasis on the margins, blind spots and dark areas.
A recipient of the Premio Nacional de Cine Experimental in Peru and the Matadero Production Grant in Madrid, his films and installations have featured in the programmes and exhibitions of the Valdivia International Film Festival, Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, l’Alternativa, TENT Rotterdam, Nederlands Film Festival and Fundación Telefónica Lima, among others.
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Karen Paulina Biswell
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Karen Paulina Biswell is the daughter of Colombian parents who emigrated to Paris to escape the extreme political repression of the early 1990s. Her diverse body of work, which continually defies definition, focuses on themes such as morality, vulnerability and human fate. Motivated by a profound interest in the extreme states and depths of the human mind and experience, Biswell examines lesser-known aspects of contemporary life and the invisible and challenging elements of society today.
She has recently held exhibitions at Espacio 23 Miami, Art and Social Unrest in the Jorge M. Perez Collection; the Momenta Biennale de l’Image in Montreal, and the A4 Art Museum in Chengdu, China, and her work features in the public and institutional collections of the Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, France; Museo del Banco de la República, Colombia; Pérez Art Museum in Miami, Colección Jorge M. Pérez; and Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, France.
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Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil
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Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil construct and deconstruct spaces. Extensive training and experience afford them an absolute mastery of volume with which to recreate a universe that seems completely illogical at first sight.
Martine Feipel studied visual arts at the Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg, the University of the Arts in Berlin and at Central St. Martins College of Art & Design in London, where she obtained her MA in Fine Art. Jean Bechameil has worked since 1990 as a freelance sculptor. He has produced many of Lars von Trier’s play and film sets, including Antichrist, Manderlay and Dogville.
Based in Luxembourg, the couple have collaborated together since 2008.
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