The artists
The beneficiaries of the In Ex(ile) Lab one-year laboratory have been selected by our 4 partners and will take part to the international activities, meetings and artistic residencies planned. The project In Ex(ile) Lab will support the research of these 12 selected artists, currently residing in France, Italy, Cyprus and Portugal: Eisa Baddour, Emmanuel Ndefo, Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti, Irkalla, Keyla Brasil, Letícia Simões, Liryc Dela Cruz, Mo, Nina Itova, Pinky Htut Aung, Polina Chebanu.
Eisa Baddour
His projects are characterized by a strong sense of social responsibility and environmental sustainability. He continues to pursue his passion for socially responsible art. He believes that artwork can make a real difference in the lives of people around the world and is committed to using his knowledge to make a positive impact on society.
Emmanuel Ndefo
Emmanuel Ndefo is an experimental performance artist, researcher and choreographer working with his body as an instrument of resistance. He is interested in de-colonial and queer pedagogies within indigenous African spirituality and performance practices. His current artistic and research practice foregrounds acts of performances that unsettles hegemonic political and social norms around gender and sexuality in Africa.
Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti
Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti is an artist working in dance, theatre and performance. He began his artistic training at the age of 9 at the same time as he discovered his neurodiversity (mild autism). He founded the collective “um cavalo disse mamãe” with the artists Piero Mamella (Italy), Bárbara Cordeiro (Portugal) and Francisca Pinto (Portugal), beginning a cross-border partnership that seeks new modes of artistic creation and existence.
Irkalla
Irkalla is a visual artist, performance artist, women’s right activist, and a mother of two. She was born in the predominantly Yazidi region of Sinjar in northern Iraq. She started her life as an artist in 2017. The same year, she left her country for Europe to protect her daughters and her art from those who were opposed to her as an artist and woman. Her work is centered around the body and the dangers it experiences on a daily basis.
Keyla Brasil
Keyla Brasil is a multidisciplinary artist probing her artistic “becoming” through her political-trans body. By shifting gazes and discourses, her bodygraphy permeates the inventiveness of other possible existences, and the way they socially relate on the borders of a territory where segregation is the norm. In recent years, the artist’s work has been heading in the direction of enabling actions in a context of “trans-artvism”.
Letícia Simões
Letícia holds a Master’s degree in Essay Cinema from EICTV (Cuba) and a Master’s degree in Contemporary Studies of Arts from UFF (Brazil). Her field of work studies the relationship between image and text through the axes of memory, gender and social history, creative writing for film and intersections between cinema, self-performance and literature.
Liryc Dela Cruz
Liryc Dela Cruz is an artist/filmmaker from the Philippines. His works have been screened, presented and exhibited in different international film festivals and art events. His films are thematically related to his origins, history, and personal psychology, while his performances and research focuses on care, indigenous practices, decolonial practices, post-colonial Philippines, transpacific slave trade and hospitality.
Mo
Over the years, he has been rehearsing in diverse artistic genres, many of which have been unusual in concept and form. His intention has often been to perform what he had to perform in a way that would exemplify it, that would conceivably, propose the public to experience what he had to perform rather than just act of seeing, perceiving and or reading.
Nina Itova
Nina Itova is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice combines performance, installation and multimedia. In her artistic practice she shares cheat codes on the path to healing with others, reconstructing episodes of the past and time traveling through nostalgia. Of Ukrainian and Russian descent, she is researching the themes of identity and unification. She is a digital nomad in Cyprus now.
Pinky Htut Haung
Pinky Htut Aung is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist from Myanmar, started her career as a musician in 2013. Aung’s first exhibition in 2018; ‘Clouds are Thoughts’, encouraged her to further explore digital art and art in a more transdisciplinary way, fusing sonic, music and visuals. She is also actively composing for films from 2020.
Polina Chebanu
Originally from Nizhyn, Ukraine, Polina practiced as an artist in Kyiv. Polina trained actress in her home town of Nizhyn, before moving to Kyiv to study directing at the “Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Karyi University of Theatre, Cinema and Television”. Polina in her artistic practice works at the intersection of various artistic styles and trends, combining stand-up and classical theater, painting and poetry.