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résidence

Sonia Saroya & Edouard Sufrin

02/02/2026 - 22/02/2026

Derniers Souffles

Derniers Souffles, a research-creation project initiated in 2021 by Sonia Saroya and Edouard Sufrin, explores the acoustic characteristics of old electronic components, their mineral origins, and the industrial processes required for their fabrication. During their residency, they will work on L’archipel (The archipelago), which will be exhibited during Oscillation ::: from the Moterhship. L’archipel is playing with the musicality of the breaths of obsolete diodes and transistors. A sound installation which can be performed by two people, as an attempt to create a language to speak to oneself, to the other, and to others. A way to let mineral sonorities tell their story while shedding words.

« An island is always the opposite of a fragment. Every fragment is melancholic; it belongs from the outset to a lost unity. But islands, on the other hand, are whole, even if they possess rocks that reveal the carving once made by an ancient demiurge. Islands only gather into an archipelago—that is, by pulling one another along, like migrating birds and fish. An archipelago is never bounded; it rather designates a relation of exteriority and resonance among its elements. » The archipelago—originally a concept drawn from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s notion of the rhizome—is enriched here by Édouard Glissant, who adds the concepts of relation, otherness, and identity. Here, the islands are not isolated from one another, but gathered within the same ocean, each with its own « root-identity. »

Meant to be activated during live shows, performances, and also lectures, the installation will be the subject of collaborations with sound artists, musicians, and researchers. Thus, the archipelago becomes a medium for musical and theoretical expression, where the islands are both the sculptures and instruments connected by cables, and the people—artists and audiences—brought into relation through the experiences they will have shared.

Sonia Saroya (FR) develops a fragile and discreet universe where landscapes — underground, industrial, or natural environments — resonate with questions drawn from the humanities, philosophy, and low-tech technologies. Her work consists of installations at the crossroads of sculpture, digital art, and sound art. She creates sound sculptures combining craft techniques and electronic circuits, as well as autonomous sound devices, kinds of « tool-artworks » that make it possible to design sound walks and listening journeys. A graduate of Paris VIII University Vincennes–Saint-Denis, her work has received various supports in France (DICRéAM, Île-de-France Region, City of Paris) and has developed through several artist residencies (GMEA (Albi), GMEM (Marseille) Sound Art Lab (Denmark)…). She presents her works in art centers and cultural venues in France (CNEAI, La Station – Gare des Mines, GMEA, Instants Chavirés…) and abroad (WRO Biennale in Poland…).

Edouard Sufrin (FR)‘s work often questions the place of technology in our daily lives, as well as the ways in which our sensory perceptions, cognitive mechanisms, and symbolic systems are transformed by it. Through creating experiential works, he seeks ways to perceive a world that is losing meaning differently and to reconsider it. He is deeply engaged in knowledge sharing and transmission, leading lectures and creative workshops on art and technology in venues such as CNEAI, GMEA, Palais de Tokyo, and Mains d’Œuvres, and during festivals such as Exit, Futur en Seine, Serendip, Vision’r, or Dorkbot and is a regular guest lecturer in art schools and is regularly invited to create site-specific projects in natural or urban spaces ( Sonic Protest, L’Embobineuse…). He teaches at Paris VIII University Vincennes–Saint-Denis, at the École de Condé,.