Voices

Words from past seasons.

“I arrived thinking I needed a residency. I left having remembered what my work was actually about.”
— Léa Cordier · Painter, Marseille
“It is the rarest thing — a place shaped by taste rather than ambition. Nothing is performed. Everything is considered.”
— Kenji Ito · Photographer, Tokyo
“The château does not feel like a program. It feels like a private house that happens to love artists. That is precisely its gift.”
— Sofia Almeida · Curator, Lisbon
“A month at Art Elfouly gave me two years of thinking. I have not stopped writing since.”
— Ibrahim Nasser · Writer, Cairo
“The mornings were mine, entirely. I have never worked with that kind of concentration anywhere else.”
— Marta Kowalska · Sculptor, Warsaw
“Dinner at that long table was the most useful critique I have received in a decade.”
— Daniel Okafor · Filmmaker, London

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Twelve places, each season.