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Aurélien Potier

21 June to 29 July 2021

Residency at Glasgow Sculpture Studios (GB-SCT), as part of a cross-residency program.

Aurélien Potier lives and works in Marseilles.

Aurélien Potier explores intimacy and vulnerability in a body of work taking shape with texts, installations, performances, drawings, sound compositions. Like a loop, an obsession, they unveil a profound intimacy, a sensitive febrility, and asks questions on love, desire, fragility. A work frisking what is coming down the guts, between sincerity and lies, alternating suffocation, tension, loosening, caressing. (text by Sissi Club)

They studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam and Cooper Union School of Art, New York. In 2018 they created the editorial platform i apologize. Their works have been presented in De Brakke Grond (Amsterdam), De Oude Kerk (Amsterdam), Cooper Union (New York), Triangle - Astérides (Marseille), Belsunce Projects (Marseille), Montez Press Radio (New York), Merzbau (Torino), Sissi Club (Marseille), CipM (Marseille).

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the GSS team is unable to welcome an artist in Glasgow in person. However, support has been given to a Marseille-based artist to carry out a residency from his home and/or studio.

About the residency

In 2022, Glasgow Sculpture Studios (GSS) and Triangle-Astérides celebrated the 10th anniversary of their Residency Exchange programme.

Established in 2012, the residency exchange is designed for artists at a pivotal point in their career who have not had major institutional support or the opportunity to develop work abroad. The programme enables Glasgow-based artists and creative practitioners to work, share practice, and learn new skills in France, while facilitating the reciprocal experience for artists based in Marseille to travel to Glasgow and experience the cultural landscape of Scotland.

The partnership between GSS and Triangle-Astérides developed from Glasgow and Marseille’s designation as twin cities in 2006. Both organisations have a history of making culture a centrepiece of life within their cities. Based in former industrial hubs, GSS and Triangle-Astérides share similar objectives, challenges, and working contexts. Both organisations underpin the creative communities of their respective cities through nurturing a supportive and diverse artistic community and providing access to access to artist studios, high-quality production facilities, and cultural networks.

As we continue into another decade of the Residency Exchange Programme, we have formalised the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) as partners in the project. The CCA team have long been supporters of this programme in a variety of ways; through studio visits, in-kind support, and working with the incoming artists from Marseille to present public outcomes from their residency as part of CCA’s Open Source Programme, we are excited to continue to acknowledge and embed this support in our exchange programme.

As organisations, GSS and CCA complement each other well; with GSS able to offer the space and resources to make work, and CCA offering the space and means to share work in addition to offering their Artist Flat as accommodation. Through working in partnership and combining our skills, resources, and expertise as organisations we’re able to provide an enhanced offer to artists from Marseille that will ensure they are well positioned to make the most of creative ecology of Glasgow.