Grand’Mare Residence
The Grand’Mare Residency is a curatorial research program based on the Rouen campus. For one year, it allows a curator to experiment with co-creation practices alongside a group of students. Through this program, ÉSADHAR aims to examine artistic practices within a social context and develop a conscious and ethical approach to the artist’s engagement with the community. The Grand’Mare Residency is organized by ÉSADHAR in partnership with the André-Malraux Center, with support from the DRAC Normandy, the Normandy Region, and the City of Rouen. The residency is open to applications, and a jury selects a winner.
Winners
Marie Plagnol
2025–2026 Fellow
Marie Plagnol is the 2025–26 fellow of the third Grand’Mare residency. As an independent curator and mediator, Marie Plagnol seeks to forge connections between different forms of otherness. The projects she leads are closely tied to her research on the political and aesthetic potentials of friendship as a relationship with the other.
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Licia Demuro
2024–2025 Fellow
Licia Demuro, a curator and art critic, has developed a curatorial practice centered on the formal, conceptual, and social repercussions of the productivist model in the field of art. Through her projects, she has focused on artistic practices based on protocols and instructions, low-tech approaches, and other forms of collective work.
Virginie Bobin
2023–2024 Award Winner
Virginie Bobin often works collaboratively, at the intersection of research, curatorial and editorial practices, education, and translation. In 2023, she earned a PhD in research-creation through the PhD-in-Practice program at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, with a dissertation on the political and emotional stakes of translation in postcolonial France.