Anaïs Lapel, artist in residence

With a bachelor's degree in Printed Plural Images from ESA le 75, Brussels, and a DNSEP from the Nantes School of Fine Arts, she builds her practice between installation, printed images, publishing, and sound creation. Since 2019, she has been building a work between art and political engagement, using these forms as a means of discussing gentrification, social discrimination, territorial contempt, or more generally, radical anti-capitalist, social, and ecological struggles. Through the design and transmission of magical documentary stories or science-fiction narrative forms, she sketches the contours of future settings and/or characters confronted with the material melancholy of a declining world, the need to rebuild collective rituals in atomized social environments, the dismantling of infrastructures that technological or energy disruption no longer allows to be maintained, the transmission of poisoned vestiges, but above all, the will to do, to be free and alive despite everything.

In this attempt to create coherence, Anaïs Lapel gave a lecture. She presented her practice, which encompasses installations, sound art, publishing, and printed images. She also presented the project "From the Foam of Chaos," for which she is conducting her residency at the Ensad Limoges art school. This project focuses on the La Hague region, the lives of its inhabitants engaged in struggle, the future of nuclear power infrastructure in France, and the role of artistic creation in developing an anti-nuclear imaginary on the eve of the industry's revival.