AWARE welcomes the Nest Collective to collaborate on the Research Center’s programming for 2025. Throughout this residency, the collective will organize four hybrid events delving into the interconnected themes of parenthood, home, and exile. Established in 2022, Nest Collective comprises artists Park Chae Biole, Constance de Raucourt, and Park Chae Dalle.

Their proposed residency project unfolds as follows:

“We are intrigued by the ways in which one inhabits a space—how we settle into it, live within it, and ultimately leave it and reconfigure it elsewhere, shaping a different country, an unfamiliar landscape.  This project has taken form across various exhibition venues between 2022 and 2024: at the Orion Tower in Montreuil with the exhibition A Wall of Sugar, at Le 6b in Saint-Denis with Dehors il y a la terre, à l’intérieur il y a la mer, at the Galerie du Crous with Each Day, and most recently, at the Monnaie de Paris with En attendant (les mots).

Through the Nest Collective, we aim to craft new spaces within existing ones, driven by a shared desire to engage in meaningful dialogue with their histories, architectural nuances, and unique contexts. Each of us brings a distinct perspective to the concept of architecture and its poetic potential. Recently, we have chosen to embrace new ways of thinking, challenging our processes and broadening our perspectives. The residency at AWARE’s Documentation Center offers us an opportunity to immerse ourselves in the voices of women and non-binary artists from around the world, to engage with their ideas, internalize them, and reimagine them in transformative ways.

As part of this residency, we will host four events throughout 2025. Each event will feature a collaboration with a visual artist, creating a space for dialogue and reflection centered on the concept of motherhood, while maintaining a strong connection to the themes of home and the nest. These events will adopt a hybrid format, incorporating elements such as readings, film screenings, discussions, ephemeral installations, and performances. Our reflections are guided by key ideas, including the metaphor of the womb as a home, the complexities of balancing motherhood and artistic practice, and the exploration of one’s origins.

Here are some of the questions we aim to explore together: How do we leave our first home, the mother’s womb? How does one rediscover their home? How can one navigate motherhood as an artist? What does it mean to share a space? How do we maintain a connection to our origins? And how do we live through separation and exile?”