ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 2027
2027 RESIDENCY
You can now apply for the 2027 artist residency. Submit your work in photography, video, AI… surprise us!
The residency will last two to three weeks, in winter 2027; the dates will be decided in consultation with you. You will be accommodated at the gallery, which will be closed to the public.
The best way to apply is to send us a single PDF including your statement of intent, portfolio, biography, and CV to galerie@lelacgele.org before November 29, 2026.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 2026
MÉLANIE DORNIER
Invited to an artist residency by Galerie Le Lac Gelé, Mélanie Dornier photographed the Camargue region, developing her images using a recipe made with locally gathered plants!
Her photographs will be exhibited at the gallery in the fall of 2026. It was a great pleasure to host her, which is why we're eager to repeat the experience in 2027.
WILD SAIL
The film for this project was purchased in China after four years spent traveling the country. It then accompanied me for another four years in India, recording the light, the silences, and the movements of these distant lands. Today, it is traveling to Arles for an artist residency, the final stage of its journey.
To my surprise, manufacturing or preservation flaws have revealed the markings on the 120 film directly onto the images, like so many traces left by their own history.
In the suspended time afforded by this residency, I experiment and photograph, guided by an exploration that is both landscape-based and introspective.
Between shots, I gather plants, wild or cultivated. In the evenings, I prepare decoctions with which I develop the film. I lend them a voice: this humble and tenacious flora becomes the narrator of my visual story. A kind of magic takes hold, a territory I discover step by step.
I wander between landscape and legend. On this Roman soil, the figure of Proserpine—goddess of the seasons and renewal—accompanies my reflections. Her story, marked by exile and transformation, fuels my questions about identity and its representations. More broadly, the symbols associated with sorceresses and their persecution throughout the centuries resonate with this work, where photography becomes a space of metamorphosis, memory, and resistance.
Melanie Dornier | artist