SAM Art Projects and Thanks for Nothing are launching a new residency program designed as a prelude to La Collective.
Efe Godoy, first artist invited by Sandra Hegedüs
From Monday, March 4th to Saturday, June 15th, 2024
Residency: from March 4th to June 2nd
Exhibition: from April 25th to June 15th at Drawing Lab, 17 rue de Richelieu 75001 Paris
Thanks for Nothing initiates its first residency program. With the support of SAM Art Projects, a Nonprofit founded by Sandra Hegedüs, Thanks for Nothing welcomes Brazilian artist, Efe Godoy, for her first international residency.
Featured in April 2024 at Drawing Lab, partner of the program, Efe Godoy will also be involved in a solidarity driven initiative through the organization of a participative workshop conducted in collaboration with Maurice Ripoche Preschool, located in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. The workshop will give light to a permanent Artwork in the public space.
What is the impact ?
- A 3-month residency in Paris with 1 accommodation and 1 studio
- A tailored support for the artist with the organization of 20 professional meetings during their stay with figures from the art world: gallery owners, critics, art collectors…
- A 2-month solo exhibition at Drawing Lab showcasing more than 150 works produced by the artist during the residency
- Nearly 2,000 visitors at the exhibition
- A complete solidarity initiative for the children of Maurice Ripoche Preschool (14th arrondissement of Paris) with a three-part program: preparation for meeting the artist, visit to the exhibition, and a co-creation workshop
- 3 in situ artwork
Since its creation, SAM Art Projects has embedded three key pillars to support creation though its philanthropic program: the SAM Prize (endowed with €20,000 and awarded annually to a French artist presenting a project for a foreign country, excluding Europe and North America), the SAM residencies (which have welcomed and showcased over 20 artists from 19 countries in France), and carte blanche projects.
By reviving the residency program, which was suspended in 2020 due to the international context, Sandra Hegedüs, the founder of SAM Art Projects, reinforces her commitment to supporting the production and diffusion of contemporary art while fostering artistic exchanges between the North and the South, and the East and the West.
In 2024, SAM Art Projects welcomes Brazilian artist Efe Godoy, who describes herself as ‘myopic and transvestigenre‘. She benefits from a tailored-made support:
> A studio space in the art and ecology residency STRATA x LES ARCHES CITOYENNES for 3 months, within its rich ecosystem in the heart of Paris,
> An art kit generously offered by Caran d’Ache to enable her to work,
> A solo exhibition of 2 months at the Drawing Lab, in Paris, also partners of the program.
Efe Godoy, first artist invited in 2024
Efe Godoy (born in 1988 at Sete Lagoas) studied at Escola Guignard UEMG and furthered her education through residency experiences in Brazil (Bolsa Pampulha, Belo Horizonte 2015/2016) and abroad (Montevideo, Uruguay 2018, Hemiencuentro _ Hemispheric Institute Ny University, Mexico 2019…). She was nominated for the PIPA AWARD 2022.
Through various mediums such as drawing, video, painting, and performance, Efe Godoy explores hybridation in all its forms and retraces childhood memories. In a straightforward manner, she attempts to engage on social media by diminishing the intimate spaces between life and art. She describes herself as ‘myopic and transfeminine ‘.
Over 3 months in Paris to develop her artistic practice
During her residency, the artist developed a solidarity-driven initiative through the organization of a participative workshop conducted in collaboration with Maurice Ripoche Preschool, located in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. The workshop gave rise to two permanent artworks in the public space.
At the conclusion of her residency, Efe Godoy showcased her work in a two-month exhibition scheduled for April 2024 at the Drawing Lab space on Rue Richelieu, near the Louvre Museum. On this occasion, the artist created a significant in situ artwork.
A 2-months solo-show at the Drawing Lab
The exhibition Ser uma mistura, um desenho, um desejo, (To be a mixture, a drawing, a desire), is a result of the desire of meddling, the will to meet new people, of natures and ordinary feelings that goes through us. What is your favourite animal? Why do we hug an object while thinking about someone? What motivates our will to build memories on this planet? Through drawing, Efe Godoy tries to establish a fantastic world where every existence is truly possible and enchanted. For this occasion, the artist created a collaboration in situ with Drawing Lab’s public. Efe Godoy suggested that visitors leave an object of emotional value that they didn’t want to keep anymore. The result of the collection was donated to Emmaüs Solidarity
Around the exhibition
Audio immersion
Delve deeper, let yourself be guided through the podcast series around the exhibition, produced by Drawing Lab with artist Efe Godoy, Sandra Hegedüs – Founder of SAM Art Projects, Marine Van Schoonbeek, and Gaëlle Porte from Thanks for Nothing.
Listen here👂
Exhibition visits
Until Saturday, June 15, 2024
Throughout the exhibition, Drawing Lab offers guided tours of the exhibition free of charge from Wednesday to Saturday, suitable for all audiences.
Registration required at: info@drawinglabparis.com
Visits and workshops for young public
Until Saturday, June 15, 2024
Throughout the exhibition, Drawing Lab hosts guided tours and/or workshops for children aged 6 to 10 on Wednesdays and Saturdays (from 3pm to 4:30pm)
Registration required at: info@drawinglabparis.com
Performance
As part of her exhibition, the artist Efe Godoy is proposing an evening of 2 performances to be held on Wednesday May 22nd at the Drawing Lab.
On this occasion, the artist becomes the center of an orchestra, inspired by a dream she had before arriving in Paris for her 3-month residency.
This poetic orchestra is activated by the complicity of the public, who accompany the artist through gesture and play. The mix of iconographic representations and words, which she always handles with ingenuity, finds a new echo in this performance.
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