The École(s) du Sud are pleased to announce the names of the nine graduate artists (DNSEP classes of 2024, 2023, and 2022) selected to take part in a residency program within one of the partner structures of the Miramar network in 2025.
Miramar is a Mediterranean network of academic, artistic, and cultural actors, initiated by the École(s) du Sud in partnership with several Mediterranean artist-run spaces and with Dos Mares in Marseille. It aims to support the professional development of recent graduates, artists, and art workers, while fostering cultural exchange opportunities based on solidarity, reciprocity, and hospitality.
- Yasmine Goudjil, graduate of the École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles (2022), will be hosted at the Dzaïer residency in Annaba (Algeria) in November 2025. She will carry out a photographic exploration of the city’s cultural and artistic richness as part of a research project on Algerian art history after 1962.
- Lucie Kerzerho, graduate of the École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles (2023), will be in residence at Greenways in Bosnia. She will continue her current research into decor, wood, and storytelling through objects, creating an on-site mobile wooden screen.
- Vanessa Kintzel, graduate of the École supérieure d’art d’Aix-en-Provence (2023), will be in residence at Elbirou Art Gallery in Sousse (Tunisia). Her project, The Shadow of Thresholds, the Light of Strata, will be a sensitive investigation into the city’s visible and underground spaces through collections, surveys, and recordings (drawing, photography, charcoal, painting).
- Laurence Merle, graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Marseille (2023), will be in residence at Le 18 in Marrakech (Morocco). Her project around the solar star will intertwine environmental, poetic, and social perspectives.
- Houssem Mokeddem, graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Marseille (2022), will also be hosted at the Dzaïer residency in Annaba (Algeria) in November 2025. Using the mask of Medusa as a symbolic anchor, his project will reflect on absence, the circulation of objects, and forms of memorial restitution.
- Marc-Aurèle Ngoma, artist, playwright, director, and choreographer, graduate of the Villa Arson (2024), will be in residence at the Centre Culturel Les Étoiles in Fez (Morocco), where he will develop a participatory theater research project with young audiences from the Medina.
- Zoé Sinatti, graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Marseille (2023), will be in residence at Tassarout, a cultural third-place in the heart of Rabat’s medina (Morocco), in autumn 2025. Her work will begin at the caravanserai’s entrance and unfold around leatherworkers’ gestures, ancestral artistic practices, and storytelling.
- Anna Soret, graduate of the Pavillon Bosio, Art & Scenography – École supérieure d’arts plastiques de la Ville de Monaco (2024), will be in residence at the Cinémathèque de Tanger (Morocco). The archives of the Cinémathèque will serve as her excavation site — she will reactivate its images and put them into dialogue with those of our own time.
- Ziyu Zhou, graduate of the École des beaux-arts d’Avignon (2024), will be in residence with the DARET association in Casablanca (Morocco). Founder of the new contemporary art space in Avignon, Espace YiiiiiiiY, she will use the residency as an opportunity to reconcile her artistic and organizational identities — while embracing the fruitful tensions that link them.
The network relies on the expertise of Dos Mares, an international art research center based in Marseille, which offers the laureates two sessions of micro-residencies before and after their research and creation residencies within Mediterranean host institutions.
In 2025, this residency program is funded by the Institut français du Maroc, the Institut français d’Algérie, the Institut français de Tunisie, Dos Mares, and the École(s) du Sud network.