Chloé Malcotti

Chloé Malcotti (1989, France) lives and works in Brussels. Her practice lies in the field of research and film. She is engaged with writing, listening, observing, recording, rewriting, reading, then speaking, speaking with, speaking through, contemplating the echoes, of the voices, of the thought, the feelings, rage, pain, and joy. Following them, fixing them, editing them, again, to allow the emergence of an image, a material wish, a reassuring shape of a singular time.

At MORPHO, Chloé will continue her research project she has been developing over time, aiming to document, feel, and name the post-traumatic spaces and times that follow traumatic events — whether recent or distant — as experienced by gendered individuals, and to explore the sensitive forms that might address them. She conducts this research through the tools and practices of videography, investigating the sensitive potentialities of two conditions of the medium: spectrality and projection. The project unfolds through five areas of focus, five cycles that outline questions and proposals for aesthetic forms articulated with ethical and political intentions and possibilities.

As part of her research residency, Chloé will host Spring Sessions, inviting fellow residents to encounter the gathered material in dialogue with their own practices and experiences, using improvisation to experiment with forms and to embody and address the different agents (voices, presences, temporalities) that inhabit the specific time frame of her investigation.

Chloé is the founder of hypernuit, a platform for cinematic and artistic research, and co-creator of the curatorial project Blue Screen. Alongside her artistic practice, she teaches videography at ERG – École de Recherche Graphique in Brussels.