Marco Godinho has been selected by the Ministry of Culture as the 2017 artist in residence for the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris following a unanimous decision of the jury.
The Portuguese artist lives and works in Luxembourg where he has been conducting an exploration of the issues of exile, memory and geography for several years. This reflection is nourished by his experience of nomadic life, at the crossroads of several languages and cultures overlaid with their literary and poetic influences.
Invited by the Progress Gallery in Paris for a personal exhibition in October, the three-month residency will allow Godinho to carry out an in-situ intervention that extends his research related to wandering, travel and more particularly to the relationship between space and time, while opening up environmental and social questions.
The jury, made up of Valérie Quilez, Danielle Igniti and Carine Krecké, said that it is convinced that the residence will give Godinho the opportunity to reinforce his long-standing ties with France, in particular during this year in which he is part of a collective exhibition at the MAC VAL in Vitry-sur-Seine, Paris, and at the Lyon Biennale.
The Ministry of Culture, which has owned a quarter of the workshop-housing at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris since 1963, regularly invites applications for its residency programme in Paris. In addition to the availability of his workshop, the department awards a work grant to the selected artist.
Image: An image from Godhino's video exhibition at Casino Luxembourg in June last year. © Marco Godhino
