Art Genes relationship with Visiting Arts and the British Council continues to go from strength to strength after a recent three month residency by Colombian artist Milena Bonilla.
 
This year we were again approached by Visiting Arts and Roberta Mahfuz Artist Links manager British Council, Sau Paulo, Brazil to host two artists. Edouard Fraipont and Fabiano Marques were selected for the residencies. 

Artists Statement

Based on iconography, the intention of the project is creating a conflict between fiction and reality. Fantastic scenes, surreal (unreal) images arise from the recording of real actions. To work with shadows and artificial light allow me to have a better control of what will be registered by the pellicle (the film). I hold a flashlight in my hand and I move along. With it, I create a distorted photographic testimony as I stretch, crawl, transform myself; get closer, and then disappear, becoming another being. Thus, the project discusses the photographic language, reality and the metaphysics of the beings.

During his residency at Art Gene Edouard spent much of his time visiting Piel Island off the coast of Barrow. 

Photography courtesy of Stuart Bastik (UK) 2007, Comments book and Diary in the Cottage on Piel Island where Edouard stayed. First entry by Ronald Warbuton 1978, who was crowed the 'King of Piel'.