The networking process undertaken by BIENALSUR gives rise to numerous dialogues and brainstorming sessions between the members of this network in permanent movement. One such dialogue was with Fabien Danesi, director of the FRAC Corsica, leading to the idea of a series of crossed residencies, enabling photographers from three BIENALSUR member countries to have an artistic experience that would “erase borders”.
It was then, when we shared this project with the Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia, that we selected the six photographers participating in these cross residencies between the KSA – Riyadh and its surroundings –, France – more specifically in Corsica – and Argentina – in Buenos Aires and Dolores. Moath Alofi, Tasneem Alsultan, Nicolás Janowski, Laura Glusman, Laetizia Debian and Sébastien Arrighi were the artists who sought to “erase borders” through their endeavours. Arrighi and Janowsky in Ryadh, Debian and Tasmeen in Buenos Aires, Glusman and Alofi in Corsica, all pursued their work in unfamiliar scenarios. D.W.
Image: Sébastien Arrighi, Serie Desert Rose
