The CNAP is partner of The Villa Albertine for Laura Henno and Andrés Baron’s residencies
View of Albertine bookstore within Villa Albertine headquarters in New York.
Three hundred and fifty years ago, France created the first artists’ residency of modern times, The French Academy in Rome –now known as The Villa Medici–, a global center for artistic and intellectual residencies that inspired the creation of the American Academies and many other residencies throughout the world. This fall, following those in Italy, Spain (Casa de Velázquez), and Japan (Villa Kujoyama), France’s fourth major villa abroad will open in the U.S., with a new concept to extend the residency location throughout the territory of residence, with a permanent presence in ten major U.S. cities to foster explorations of an entire country-continent. Villa Albertine expands France’s global cultural footprint to its most significant form yet by creating a new cultural institution and residency program anchored in 10 major American cities (Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.); partnering with major French and American cultural institutions; and welcoming 60 residents per year, from France and around the globe. Present throughout the United States and benefiting from a network of top-tier French and American cultural partners, the Villa offers an annual program of individual residencies, lasting one to three months, and intended for creators, thinkers and cultural leaders.
The CNAP joins Villa Albertine for Laura Henno and Andrés Baron’ residencies (Slab City, Los Angeles and New York). Through this partnership, CNAP consolidates its support to french artistic creation.
Villa Albertine is a cultural project of unprecedented scale that strives to overhaul the concept of artists’ residencies by breaking with the historical model of a single location: it instead develops flexible formats, in order to capture the vastness and diversity of the United States and to respond to residents’ individual needs. The Villa aims to amplify the voices of emerging artists and thinkers who examine the key issues of our time, while better accommodating their creative aspirations through a tailored approach.
The inaugural season, curated by 40 French partnering cultural institutions, will kick off with the arrival of the first residents in the fall of 2021.
CNAP supports Laura Henno and Andrés Baron
➜ Laura Henno
Photographer, filmmaker
Slab City / Los Angeles - Fall 2022
After completing her studies in photography at the ENSAV Graduate School of Audiovisual in La Cambre, Laura Henno turned her attention to filmmaking at Le Fresnoy. Her work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions, most notably at Toronto’s Ryerson Image Center, the Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France in Paris, and the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki. She won the Prix Découverte at the Rencontres d’Arles festival in 2007 and the Sam Award for Modern Art in 2019. Her next exhibition, at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, will be held in 2022.
➜ Andrés Baron
Video artist
New York – May 2022
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Andrés Baron lives and works in Paris. His approach, which focuses on spaces of representation, deals with images that have been altered by screens and networks. He is an École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (ENSAD) graduate, and his work in video, photography, and film has been shown in a range of places and exhibitions, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL), the Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK), New York’s Anthology Films Archives, the LA Film Forum, the Toronto Images Festival, and Le Bal, in Paris.