Residency 2026
We celebrate the curiosity, commitment, and artistic rigor embodied in the projects submitted and selected for this 2026 edition. The balance sought in shaping this new residency collective is grounded in a diversity of profiles and voices, capable of dialogue and exchange with one another and with the Corsican territory. The practices at work this year engage with and probe the living world, maintaining Providenza as a place of experimentation and free expression, drawing from Corsica and the inspiration it awakens.
What these practices share is performance as a tool for extending visual and sound-based works, as well as research and writing.
While Providenza welcomes nearly ten different nationalities this year, special attention has been given to Corsican artists: Diane Moulenc, photographer, and Juliette Laurent, creator of the itinerant radio project Radio Immortelle, whose work re-enchants the territory.
Selected residents
Frankie, Austria
In her sonic practice, Frankie (Franziska Aigner) explores deep contracts and the tension that arises from their juxtaposition. Her musical language draws on traditional Baroque structures rooted in oppressive eras and systems of power, and assembles them with post-club music and digital production. After numerous artistic collaborations, including Kelman Duran, Anne Imhof, William Forsythe and Holly Herndon, she is now focusing on composing a solo piece that celebrates romance, intimacy, and desire amidst the world’s constant threat and underlying instability.
Pascaline Amblard, France
Preparing the exhibition of her work at FRAC Corsica, Pascaline Amblard discovered, the Corsican nuthatch — the island’s last endemic bird species. Her residency at Providenza offers an opportunity to deepen her field research through patient observation and long periods of watching from hides. As a visual and installation artist, Pascaline's practice engages assemblage and collecting, creating installations that inhabit and transform the spaces in which they are presented. Observing the Corsican nuthatch becomes an invitation to immersive work on the ways of inhabiting an ecosystem.
Nabil Aniss, Morocco & Belgium
Nabil lives between Brussels and Meknès, Morocco, where he was born. His work explores bodies in movement, metamorphosis, and trance as vehicles for liberation from systems of oppression. "Dancing Animals" is a project he is developing around the mystical rituals of his hometown, while seeking their resonance within other political and cultural spaces. His residency combines research, sound and video editing toward the creation of a sound and image installation centered on animal movements as performative practices.
Anton Bialas, France
Presented at Cannes Critics' Week, Berlinale, FIDMarseille, and more recently at Bourse de Commerce de Paris as part of the exhibition "Clair Obscur", the films of Anton Bialas portray marginal beings who transgress reality. At Providenza, he continues the writing of his next film, "Agony in the Palace", which recounts the final days of an autocratic regime and the contamination of power over bodies and minds.
Joséphine Foster, United States
Josephine Foster is a composer of experimental folk music. Born in Colorado and trained in classical singing, her practice focuses on the voice and sung poetry, which she infuses with experimental folk, country blues, and experimental song. While in Providenza, her residency is dedicated to improvising and composing on the piano for a new, entirely instrumental album, as well as writing songs.
Joao Gonzalez, Portugal
João Gonzalez is a Portuguese filmmaker whose first film, "Ice Merchants", received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film in 2023. Through drawing and storytelling, João’s artistic practice is deeply shaped by themes of solitude. Coming to Providenza for a period of immersion in nature, he will develop a new animated film exploring writing, drawing, and musical composition.
Radio Immortelle, France, Corsica
Radio Immortelle is a Corsican community-based, participatory, and traveling radio platform that organizes workshops for diverse audiences (youth, students, residents, isolated individuals, stigmatized people, etc.), with the aim of providing tools for self-expression, sound creation, and public speaking. Radio Immortelle benefits from a hybrid residency at Providenza, setting out to listen to the village of Piève in order to develop a sensory map of the area and create opportunities for gatherings and collective experimental workshops.
Baptiste Morizot, France - in partnership with La Villa Medicis
Providenza welcomes philosopher, writer, and tracker Baptiste Morizot as part of a cross-residency with Villa Medici. In collaboration with the INRAE San Giuliano, this residency follows the citrus route, where citrus fruits — born from multiple hybridizations — become a living model of intertwined forms. Each citrus fruit emerges as the result of permutations, graftings, and centuries-old crossbreeding.
He teaches us that hybridity constitutes an essential raw material for thinking about living and shared forms. Through them, routes of circulation take shape where humans, non-humans, plants, and forms of knowledge intersect, revealing a dense network of exchanges and interdependencies.
Diane Moulenc, France, Corsica
Diane Moulenc is a Corsican photographer and graduate of the École nationale supérieure de la photographie d'Arles. Born, living, and working in Corsica, she develops a relationship to the image that lies between poetry and documentary. The island itself becomes a terrain for wandering and experimentation within her photographic practice. Providenza offers her an unprecedented landscape to explore on her own land — a moment of discovery, or rediscovery, of the space of seeing.
Jamal Ouazzani, France & Morocco
Jamal Ouazzani is an essayist, poet, human rights activist, and multidisciplinary artist. After "Amour", his widely acclaimed first essay on the revolutionary force of love shaped by Arab and/or Muslim culture, published in 2024 by LeDuc Editions, he releases this year a poetry collection, "Feux de Joie" (Blast Editions), as well as "Féminités Musulmanes", his latest essay. As the creator of the podcast JINS, which explores gender, sexuality, and love within Arab and/or Muslim communities, he continues to deepen these themes at Providenza through a project combining writing and poetic performance, weaving together autofiction and archival research.
Deicy Sanches, France & Cape Verde
Deicy Sanches explores the dynamics at play between Cape Verdean culture and the archipelago’s postcolonial legacy, translating them into film work that blends dance, archives, and fiction. As French-Cape Verdean multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores what bodily memory reveals about identity, marginality, and the poetry of the world, Deicy is continuing her work on the screenplay for this first feature film in Providenza.
Perila, Russia
Perila is a composer, visual artist, and poet. Her practice revolves around symbolic perceptions of time and space, approached through sensorial and sensual forms. It is through this sonic approach that she founded WET, an online community exploring experimental and sensory dimensions of sound. Her work has been released and supported by labels including Smalltown Supersound, Sferic, West Mineral Ltd., The Trilogy Tapes, and Shelter Press. During her residency at Providenza, she will devote her time to the development of a ritualized sound, spoken-word, and visual performance centered on an attention to deep, slow, and expanded temporalities.
Jury
Fabien Danesi holds a PhD in Art History and was a maître de conférences (Associate Professor) at the Faculty of Arts of the Université de Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens from 2008 to 2021. A former resident of the Villa Medici, Académie de France in Rome (2007–2008), he has previously taught at the Université François Rabelais in Tours, Université Paris 13, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, and the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. A member of AICA – the International Association of Art Critics – France, he was in charge of the programme at the Pavillon Neuflize OBC, the creative laboratory of the Palais de Tokyo, from September 2014 to June 2017. He subsequently co-curated two exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo and served as head of the artistic programme at the Casa Conti – Ange Leccia in Oletta. Since October 2021, he has been the Director of FRAC Corsica, a cultural institution of the Collectivité de Corse. In March 2025, he was elected co-president of Platform, the association representing all FRACs, alongside Patricia Carette.
Martha Kirszenbaum is a curator, art critic, and editor based in Paris. A graduate of Sciences Po and Columbia University, she served as curator of the French Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, presenting the work of artist Laure Prouvost. She founded and directed Fahrenheit, an art centre and residency programme in Los Angeles. She has previously worked at MoMA, the New Museum, and the Centre Pompidou, and has conceived exhibitions, screenings, performances, and lectures for major international institutions. She is a regular contributor to numerous art publications and teaches in a variety of contexts around the world.
Paul Briottet is currently Artistic Associate to the Director General of Bozar – Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels. He collaborated with the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence for over ten years as Director of the Academy and concert programming, and has developed a practice as an independent artistic adviser and producer, working notably with American choreographers Gerard & Kelly and with the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. As a producer, programmer, and artistic adviser, his work sits at the intersection of music, dance, performance, visual arts, and space. He recently joined the programmation and production team of Providenza.
Léa Alia Triboulet produces and distributes films. After extensive experience in festival programming and production, she joined the production and sales agency Salaud Morisset in 2019, leading the company's short film department and overseeing acquisitions - working on films from established filmmakers as Wim Wenders, Yorgos Lanthimos, Jonathan Glazer and emerging voices (Molly Manning Walker, Eivind Landvisk, Anna Hints among others). She recently joined the programmation and production team of Providenza.
Antoine Viviani is a filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist and founder of Providenza. His work, between documentary, cinema and immersive installations, questions the relationship between our sensory and mental perception of the world. It has been shown in numerous institutions ((Harvard Film Study Center, Sensory Etnographic Lab, Gaîté Lyrique, National Gallery of Iceland) and awarded in international festivals (Sundance, CPH-Dox, IDFA). He is a 2022 laureate of the Villa Albertine.