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Anna Meschiari
Resident
05.10.2024 - 05.01.2025
Medici Residency with the région Occitanie
Plastic arts
Biography
Anna Meschiari (1987) has lived and worked in Occitanie since 2014, when she graduated from the École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués in Vevey. Graduating with a degree in Anthropology (Université Jean Jaurès, Toulouse) in 2024, she is also co-director of RIGA (Saint-Pierre-de-Trivisy, Tarn) an associative project offering creative residencies in the field of contemporary art. In 2023, she joined Documents d’Artistes Occitanie. Her work is based on visual content linked to coding – itself linked to archives, architecture or textiles – which she endeavors to shift from one medium to another.
Project
For her residency at Villa Medici, Anna Meschiari will revive the figure of Marta Lonzi (1938-2008), a member, along with her sister Carla, of Rivolta Femminile in Rome and Milan in the 1970s. An architect, Marta Lonzi created installation structures as well as living and working spaces. Her conception of architecture, in praise of Francesco Borromini (1599-1667), architect of detail and structural empiricism, is based, in its radicality, on figures from the past, far from the idea of tabula rasa, with pre-eminence of the author, of a certain modernism of the time. Marta Lonzi’s thinking, based on archives consulted on site, will be at the heart of a new creation.
This residency is part of a partnership with Occitanie.
Medici Residency Occitanie
Created in 2018 by the Occitanie Region in partnership with the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici, the Price Occitanie - Medici dedicated to young contemporary creation aims to develop the international influence of talent from Occitanie by welcoming them to the Villa Medici for a research and creative stay of several months. Each year, the price attracts around a hundred candidates - visual and visual artists - eager to take advantage of the opportunity offered by a residency at one of Europe's most emblematic art centers, in contact with other artists from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. Each year, the winner of the Price Occitanie - Medici is selected on the basis of an application and an audition of the shortlisted candidates, each of whom presents his or her project to a jury made up of representatives of the Region, the Director of Villa Medici and associated experts.