Joana Attia

As a freelancer, I am called upon for various projects ranging from event scenography to creating sets for film shoots, as well as retail design or even interior architecture (Volontiers, Seasidz Production, Parti Pris...)

For the first time, the art center's residency is taking place outside its walls in a new location: "la supérette". With an area of 200 m2, it is located in the south of Malakoff at 28 boulevard Stalingrad. The neighborhood, close to line 13, constitutes "a small city within the city". Identified by the art center as a remarkable architectural and urban site with unique territorial stakes, candidates who wished to apply were asked to conceive a project linked to the neighborhood and its inhabitants. Following a selection jury, the collectiveantome, composed of Joana Attia, Julie Bartholomé and Jade Maily, was unanimously chosen.

For their residency at la supérette, collectiveantome presents its intention to create a space for sharing, creation, and research open to the neighborhood's inhabitants – the main actors of this territory and its demands. Giving voice, listening, and allowing for accidents and the sensitive potential of each person are integral parts of their creative process. During their four-month residency in Malakoff, collectiveantome uses la supérette as a modular and evolving workshop, alternating between time spent outside and inside this space.

Commitment is explored through major causes from which we are all victims. This great upheaval of feelings is experienced, transformed, radiated, and wounded before dispersing in the labyrinths of creation. At the intersection of a participatory magazine and an art object, FANTOME explores the encounter between aspirations and the major contemporary challenges we all face. On the edge of the world, the silent poetry of those for whom creation is a daily matter, as well as for those for whom activity is a phenomenon, takes hold. Thus, the contributors to the magazine express themselves as artists, young creators, or external audiences from different fields of knowledge necessary for the creation of a unique object, with the aim of making them dialogue with each other. However, what can be said about the status of the creator and where should the line of legitimacy be drawn? FANTOME is therefore demanding but popular, as it does not believe in the antinomy of these terms. FANTOME thus offers a compromise between poetry and reality to freely weave a truth in its own name.

In parallel with the print format, we organize events that provide another visibility for artists. I therefore take care of all this part, from production (finding venues, artists, partners, creating a program) to set design, which is my preferred field.