Olivier Marboeuf - Nicolas Ceccaldi

This year we are proposing two different workshops lead by Olivier Marboeuf and Nicolas Ceccaldi. 

Olivier Marboeuf is an author-storyteller, artist, independent curator, cultural theorist and film producer from Guadeloupe. In the early 1990s, together with French-Beninese author Yvan Alagbé, he founded éditions Amok (now Frémok), a research-based comics publisher that launched the legendary Parisian literary café Autarcic Comix. He then became artistic director of Espace Khiasma (2004 to 2018), a visual arts and living literature center based in the parisian outskirts and dedicated to minority representations, which contributed to introducing postcolonial theories to the French art scene through numerous exhibitions and encounters. From 2013 to 2024, he was also a film producer with Spectre Productions, producing some sixty artists’ films and documentaries in all formats.
He currently divides his time between writing, drawing and activities linked to collaborative art practices. He is a founding member of the Réseau Indépendant des Travailleur-euses et Acteur-ices de l’Art (RITAA) in Guadeloupe, member of RAYO, an experimental pedagogy program in the Greater Caribbean, and of the international board of the Akademie der Künste der Welt de Cologne.

Among his recent grants and residencies, for the academic year 2023/2024 he has benefited from the Banister Fletcher Global Fellowship at the University Institute of London in Paris (ULIP), where he initiated research about the archive of Caribbean diasporic presences in Paris and London. He is also writer in residence at La Maison Baldwin / Fondation Camargo in Cassis in 2025.

In 2022, he published the essay Suites Décoloniales : s’enfuir de la plantation  and the poetry collection  Les Matières de la Nuit, both published with Éditions du Commun. In 2025, his theatrical text La nuit juste avant le feu will be published by Editions Atlantiques déchaînés, while a Brazilian Portuguese translation of Suite décoloniales is planned by Editora Oficina Raquel.

Nicolas Ceccaldi is a painter and sculptor born in 1983 in Montreal, Canada. He lives and works in Paris and has exhibited internationally. Solo exhibitions have taken place at Consortium Dijon, Kunstverein Munich, House of Gaga, Greene Naftali, Édouard Montassut, Neue Alte Bruecke and Guzzler.

From Pixels to Pigment: How to Paint with a Projector in the Age of Fair Use

In this workshop, Nicolas Ceccaldi will guide participants through his own pastel technique using a projector. The tutorial will cover accurate alignment, effective lighting setups, and strategic color separation in Photoshop CS6. Alongside this technical training, the session will open into a broader discussion on the topic of appropriation in contemporary art: learning about copyright laws and how to engage with them, legal grey zones, staying up-to-date with the public domain, and landmark lawsuits that have shaped visual art throughout history.