team

Charlotte Hochman

Interstitial artist
Role: founder of ce-ci

Charlotte Hochman develops an undisciplined artistic practice centered on the interstice as a space of potential. Her work emerges from close collaborations with artists, activists, and scientists, and unfolds in the in-between - between disciplines, roles, and geographies - exploring a form of creativity deeply rooted in the political. She has initiated spaces, collectives, and living forms including La Ruche, PLACE, and Wow!Labs, which have gained international recognition. She has written films such as How We Meet (2023), screened in Oslo, San Francisco, Berlin, and Tunis, and designed participatory formats like Not So Fragile (2020), a crowd-based game presented at La Maison des Métallos, Parc de Belleville, and the Somewhere Places festival in Spain. She holds degrees in artistic research from the École Nationale d’Art de Paris (ENDA), in philosophy from the University of Oxford (with a distinction for her work on freedom in Spinoza’s Ethics), and is also an alumna of the University of London and INSEAD. In 2018, she was a lecturer and artist-in-residence at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Between 2010 and 2015, she collaborated with the Obama administration, building physical spaces for creativity in volatile contexts around the world. Her work has been recognized with two United Nations awards: the Intercultural Innovation Award (2022) and the Women-Led Innovation Award (2023). A Fulbright scholar in 2017, she is also a member of international networks such as the BMW Foundation’s Responsible Leaders and the Global Diplomacy Lab.

Alexandre Gurita

Invisual artist
Role: anchor for transforming the art world

He is the Director of the Biennale de Paris, founded by André Malraux in 1959, and the founder of ENDA (École Nationale d’Art de Paris), the first school dedicated to artistic research, established in 2009. In 2004, he introduced the concept of invisual art, a form of art that exists beyond the material or immaterial artwork itself. According to art historian Éric Monsinjon, invisual art is defined by what it is not. By separating art from the artwork, invisual art heralds a complete paradigm shift. Alexandre Gurita views the art system itself as a working material. He collaborates with other professionals to promote a radical transformation of art. His approach is centered around two key concepts: asymmetry and the strategy of water. He practices institutional capture, a method of taking over institutions in order to transform them into critical institutions for change.

Ella Manzheeva

Filmmaker and hunter of emptiness
Role: anchor for emerging forms of knowledge

Award-winning filmmaker Ella Manzheeva was born in the Russian Republic of Kalmykia and trained at the Moscow Film School. At the crossroads of her art and heritage, Kalmykia being the only Buddhist region in Europe, she dedicates herself to studying emptiness and producing new knowledge through the intersection of Buddhism, art, and science. Her first feature film, The Gulls, premiered at the Berlinale in 2015. The Gulls opened new territory on the map of world cinema. The film was screened in 28 countries across all continents. Her second dramatic feature, White Road, was selected by the Atelier Cinéfondation at the Cannes Festival in 2021.

Géraldine Santini

Artist and inventor of Uderochromatism
Role: anchor for connecting with territories

Uderochromatism uses algorithms that convert emotions felt in the organs of the belly into chromatic pulses, that can then be played as images or music. Uderochromatisms develops formats accessible to everyone, so that each person can contribute to playful and artistic expression, far from any standardization of artistic expression. By creating uderochromatism, Géraldine Santini opens a space for experimentation aimed at challenging traditional definitions of art. Defining herself as a nomadic artist, after years of musical practice and studies in musicology, she also experiments with noise music. She holds a PhD in cognitive psychology focusing on colours.

Michele Caleffi

Photography and ecological architecture
Roles: visual identity, and designer of the physical space of ce-ci in Loisy

Michele Caleffi, the creator of ce-ci’s graphic identity, oversees the center’s visual universe. He is also the co-designer and builder of the physical space where ce-ci is based in Loisy, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. As an artist, his work spans visual and sound creations, including the film How We Meet (2023), for which he directed the cinematography, editing, and sound design, and the exhibition Not So Fragile (2020), for which he created the photography and digital design. Trained in ecological architecture, he is also the co-founder of several physical spaces for creative collaboration.

Sedera Ranaivoarinosy

Choreographer, dancer, and journalist
Role: residency team

Sedera Ranaivoarinosy is a choreographer and performer who weaves connections between writing, movement and co-creation. As an independent journalist, translator, and content creator for the third sector, she blends dance and storytelling to create a practice where movement is in dialogue with today’s stories. She also contributes to video content production, creating further channels between stage and screen. Sedera explores the stage as a space for shared experimentation through projects such as Projet X by Clémence Pavageau, L’Éloge de la Cigale by Christine Bastin, and Femmes Seules, co-created with Eva Colpacci.

Isadora Canela

Visual artist, activist
Role: residency team

Isadora Canela supports ce-ci’s dynamic during residencies and workshops alongside Sedera Ranaivoarinosy. Trained in journalism and film, and deeply influenced by the landscapes of her native Brumadinho in Brazil, a region both beautiful and scarred by one of the largest contemporary environmental disasters, she explores the connections between body, territory, and transmission through hybrid formats. Her work bridges human and non-human forms of life, as well as physical and symbolic geographies. She is the co-founder of Collective Webs in Berlin.