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Relive the residency of Lou Villapadierna at Aperto

The artist-researcher had make Aperto’s space her laboratory for poetic and sound research and experimentation. From the mouth to the paper, her investigations around these voices unfold through self-narrative, vocal theory, and poetry.

Between January and March 2025, Lou Villapadierna organized Aperto as an echo chamber to welcome these polyphonic voices that unsettle, both in their sonic identities and in the storytelling they carry. The artist developed an experimental work mobilizing four approaches: sound recording, vocal experimentation, sound diffusion, and poetic writing. This individual work, carried out in the intimacy of the studio, was complemented by invitations to other artists and performers, as well as collective practice sessions to which the public was occasionally invited to join.

“I’ve been investigating outres-voix for several years. Outres-voix are her marginalized, affected, ethereal, spectral voices...” Watch her video interview here!

12/02/2025 - Poèmes d'amour et d'amnésie

As part of her residency, Lou Villapadierna invited six artists to make their voices heard, each bringing a poem, a song, or a fragment of an essay or thought about their own vocal genealogy.

The invited artists: André Fortino, Camille Juthier, Low Lov, Carolle Sanchez, Camille Soualem, Simone Torrente, Nanténé Traoré.

22/02/2025 - à ma vie

Lou Villapadierna a invité, dans le cadre de sa résidence, l’artiste-auteure Lulma Guit pour un atelier d’écriture autour du travail de la poétesse et essayiste Lyn Hejinian, et de son ouvrage My Life. Il sera question de correspondance, d'adresse et de récit de soi.

© Lou Villapadierna

27/02/2025 - La vie que je mène et que je déteste

As part of her residency, Lou Villapadierna invited the artist and author Eugénie Zely for a performed writing workshop.

Based on a protocol known only to Eugénie Zely, a community is formed through the experience of writing and speaking simultaneously, in the same gesture. Writing becomes speech, or speech is what creates writing, and what is heard is what drives the continuation of speaking-writing. What remains is the hell kept at a distance; it is the community formed around a polyphonic “I”.

26/03/2025 - ce que dit la bouche d’ombre

Lou Villapadierna opened the doors of the project space one last time to present the performance ce que dit la bouche d’ombre. The result of these past months of work, this new creation is above all musical and sung. Memorial and personal voices, also drawn from correspondences maintained by the artist during her residency, will resonate to the rhythm of timeless hits.

© Esmire & Erwan