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.
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 develops 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 2 permanent Artwork in the public space.
At the conclusion of her residency, Efe Godoy will showcase her work in a 2-months exhibition scheduled for April 2024 at the Drawing Lab space on Rue Richelieu, near the Louvre Museum. On this occasion, the artist will notably create a significant in situ artwork.
A 2-monts 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 will create a collaboration in situ with Drawing Lab’s public. Efe Godoy will suggest the visitors to leave an object of emotional value that they don’t want to keep anymore. The result of the collection will be donated to Emmaüs solidarity.
