Christine Ferrer is a visual artist. She has had exhibitions at the Campredon art center in l’Isle sur la Sorgue, the Chapelle Saint Louis in Avignon, the Château de la Tour d’Aigues, and the Hôtel d’Agar in Cavaillon. In Stockholm, at the Academy of Fine Arts, Ferrer exhibited with two other artists, including Safaa Erruas. More recently, she presented a monumental installation at the Chapelle Saint-Charles in Avignon, and at the Musée Pétrarque in Fontaine de Vaucluse, as well as an installation at the gallery Un lieu Une Œuvre in Ménerbes. In May 2022, she was artist-in-residence in Tangier with photographer Geneviève Gleize for an installation to be presented at the “ÊTRE ICI” biennial in Tangier in September, a residency supported by the Blachère Foundation.

Christine is a local Ménerbes artist, working with Safaa Erruas and Alejandra Gonzalez Soca.

Photo Geneviève Gleize

Diana Shpungin’s work is dedicated to challenging ideas of drawing through sculptural and time-based forms. Her works are led by a heart-strong conceptualism, involving obsessive processes while exploring themes of memory, failure, loss, and repair, –employing optimism in a quest for empathy across identity lines. Born in Riga, Latvia, Shpungin emigrated as a child to New York City. She received her MFA from SVA, NY and has exhibited extensively in both national and international venues including: Bronx Museum; Brooklyn Museum; Invisible Exports; SculptureCenter NY; Smack Mellon,NY; Aldrich Museum,CT; Bass Museum,Miami; MASS MoCA; Museum of Contemporary Art,Miami; Museum of Contemporary Art,Tucson; SiTE:LAB; Futura Center Prague; Galerie Zurcher,Paris; and Tomio Koyama,Tokyo. Shpungin was awarded the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant and NYFA Fellowship in Sculpture as well as residencies from Art Omi, BAU at The Camargo Foundation, Bronx Museum AIM, MacDowell, and Yaddo. Shpungin’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, New York Magazine, The New York Times among many other publications.

Ronnie Self is an architect, architectural writer and Professor at the University of Houston. He has practiced in Texas, London, New York and Paris with a focus on residential and museum design. Self has published with architectural periodicals in the USA and Europe and is the author of The Architecture of Art Museums – A Decade of Design: 2000 – 2010.

Alejandra González Soca was born in Maldonado, Uruguay, where she lives. A multidisciplinary artist, Soca’s work is based on the intersection and interweaving of participatory artistic practices, collective curatorships and the constant search for ways to build knowledge in contemporary art. She has exhibited at: National Museum of Visual Arts (MNAV); Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (EAC) in Uruguay; Banco do Brasil Cultural Center – Brasilia, San Pablo; Cabildo Cultural Center – Asunción; Casa del Risco Museum – Mexico and the Qorikancha Museum – Cusco, among others. She participated in the 4th BIENALSUR, the 5th Montevideo Biennial and 2nd Asunción International Biennial. Her work has been recognized through competitive funds, scholarships, and artistic residencies. While at the Dora Maar House, González Soca will be working on a collaborative project entitled, “MOVING From South to South” with Safaa Erruas an artist based in Tétouan, Morocco and Christine Ferrer, a French artist based in Ménerbes. This collaborative project seeks to explore approaches that connect them both conceptually and materially, based on the idea of geographical displacement.

© photo Emanuel Gianoni

Safaa Erruas was born in Tétouan, Morocco, where she lives and works. In 2009, she was selected as one of five significant female artists from the new generations of women artists in the Muslim world, for a New York exhibition organized by MoCADA, or Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts. In 2022, she took part in the African Voices exhibition in Milan, along with Mounir Fatmi and Maimouna Gerresi. Her works are part of collections at the Moroccan Royal Palace, Société Générale (Morocco), Caisse de dépôt et de gestion (Morocco), ONA Foundation in Morocco, Fondation Jean Paul Blachère in Apt, and the Centre d’art contemporain de Lagos in Nigeria. While at the Dora Maar House, Erruas will be working on a collaborative project entitled, “MOVING From South to South” with Alejandra González Soca, a Uruguayan artist based in Maldonado and Christine Ferrer, a French artist based in Ménerbes. This collaborative project seeks to explore approaches that connect them both conceptually and materially, based on the idea of geographical displacement.