Chloé Malcotti

Chloé Malcotti (1989, France) lives and works in Brussels. Her practice lies between the visual arts and cinema, working with moving and still images, narration, and sound. For several years, she has explored the relations of material affections between human and non-human bodies in environments where social, mental, and environmental ecologies — as described by Félix Guattari in Les trois écologies — have been deeply affected by industrial capitalism, places she herself inhabited during the first part of her life. Through the different media she engages, her work seeks to make perceptible the relations of vulnerability, exchange, and transcorporality between these bodies, revealing their co-dependencies, affinities, and complicities within situated places and space-times. This artistic practice is closely intertwined with theoretical and practical research, moving back and forth through experimental creative processes, where each project gives rise to different forms, crystallizations, and artistic expressions.

At MORPHO, Chloé will start a new research project where she will aim 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 Wood to Fire 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.