Celia Stroom - FRANCE
After years of being a manager for large scale projects in European museums, Celia Stroom decided to use her skills for personal ideas. She is now the manager and artistic director of the collective Heroines. Here she brings together female artists of various specialisation to explore and express aspects of female intimacy. In her work, curation and creation are intertwined. A multidisciplinary person herself, together with her team of artists Celia presents to the audience synesthetic artworks of deep intensity, where the audience can experience a state of trance, a journey into the familiar but yet unknown. Here the experience is evoked by awakening all their senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. This artistic process comes from the way she perceives the world, a deep emotional connection with every elements. Her work is about sharing with others, interconnection is the heart of her process. As an art director of a collective, she enjoys deeply sharing ideas, and shaking, challenging everyone to go beyond their limits. Celia’s strong inspiration comes from thousand hours in museums, the History of Art which she has studied at Sorbonne University and Ecole du Louvre alongside dance and singing. Having worked as a museologist and having performed in opera for a decade, in her work Celia practices the opposite, letting the strict technic aside - embracing the free expression fully experimenting with the form to create shattering sensual experiences for the audiences. Alongside Heroines, Celia leads the artistic project L’Oeil Ecoute, creating multisensory living paintings inspired by Masters of Art.
Salome Jashi - GEORGIA
Salome Jashi is a filmmaker, a producer and a video artist. She first studied journalism and worked as a reporter for the BBC. In 2005 she was awarded a British Council scholarship to study documentary filmmaking at Royal Holloway, University of London. Upon her return to Georgia, she started to create artistic documentaries and became as well producer of documentaries. Her documentary The Dazzling Light of Sunset |2016| was awarded the Main Prize at Visions du Réel’s Regard Neuf Competition. Her previous film Bakhmaro |2011| received an Honorary Mention for a Young Documentary Talent at DOK Leipzig, was awarded as the Best Central and Eastern European Documentary at Jihlava IFF, and was nominated for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and Silver Eye Awards. Salomé has received Adami Media Prize for her short film The Tower |2018|.Her visual approach is minimalist, poetical, sensitive, nostalgic and sometimes rough. Alongside filmmaking, Salomé is developing video installations in collaboration with the artist Celia Stroom since 2018. In the first exhibition of the collective Heroines, she recreates the feeling that we can experience when we isolate ourselves in the bathroom. In 2019, she founds the film production society Microcosmoss in tribute to the specific filming technic that she has been developing the past 10 years. She has always been attracted in filming micro environments from the very beginning of her career, working the video as a craftsman. Salomé tutors at international workshops collaborating with European Documentary Network. Salomé produced as well performances touching upon the subject of sexuality in Georgia -"More than one species |2017| made in co- production with Goethe Institute’s International Coproduction Fund. She has been co-procuding as well the first edition of the nomadic exhibition The Enclosed Garden in Georgia. In 2020, she will be resident of DAAD program in Berlin, releasing a new documentary project in co-production with Köln based Corso Film. She will be as well co-manager of the new session of Heroines collective in Thailand.
Co-Managers of the edition 2020