Talk: The artistic residencies of the Project Contested Desires, Constructive Dialogues at MUHNAC, 2025

Coleções Coloniais MUHNAC: Estudar, Ressignificar & Conversar
The artistic residencies of the Project Contested Desires, Constructive Dialogues at MUHNAC

Marta Lourenço, museum director, invites Rocio Guerrero Marin (Chile) and Maya Louhichi (Tunisia-France), for a conversation about their recent artistic residencies in MUHNAC. 

More about the Project Contested Desires, Constructive Dialogues, click here. 

Session in English.

Bio notes

Rocío Guerrero Marín (1991) is a multidisciplinary artist from Santiago, Chile. She studied visual arts at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2014) and earned a Master's degree in studio art from Hunter College-CUNY, New York (2021). Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries, including: GAM(Chile, 2024), NAC (Chile, 2023), 205 Hudson Gallery (New York, 2021), Vitrinalab (Miami, 2020), Galería Metropolitana (Chile, 2020), Galería de Arte CCU (Chile, 2019), MAC (Chile, 2018), YAP-CONSTRUCTO/MOMA PS1 (Chile, 2014). Additionally, her work has been reviewed in Hauser&Wirth, Hyperallergic, and Terremoto. Rocío has received FONDART funding on two occasions and has participated in artist residencies at CasaPOLI (Chile, 2015), SOMA Summer in (México, 2021), and L’Aquila Reale (Italy, 2022). She currently lives and works in Santiago, Chile.

Born in 1985 to a French mother and a Tunisian father, Maya Louhichi is a visual artist whose work revolves around questions of memory, identity, the notion of trace, and the body. Trained outside academic circuits, she has produced several photographic series on the theme of bodily expression in the contemporary urban world between 2009 and 2014. Her documentary film "Petites histoires enfumées" (Little smoky stories), made in 2015, intertwines intimate testimonies relevant to Tunisian collective memory. In 2018, the death of her father, the film director Taieb Louhichi, marked a profound turning point in her artistic research. Drawing inspiration from her paternal cinematic legacy, her current work is deeply imbued with it. She explores the theme of memory from various perspectives, whether intimate, collective, or linked to specific places. Her ongoing project, "Mareth, un village parmi tant d’autres" (Mareth, a Village Among Others) extends this legacy by drawing a parallel between the current mass emigration from the country of origin and that of the 1970s, based on the documentary film "Mon village, un village parmi tant d’autres" (My Village, a Village Among Others) (1972) by Taieb Louhichi. This project was awarded the Helping Hands grant by the Tui Care Foundation at the end of 2023. That same year, she joined the Tunisian collective Bouma. Her work has been exhibited at the Rencontres de Bamako - African Biennale of Photography in Mali, Jaou Photo (Tunis), and the 18th Summit of La Francophonie (Djerba) in 2022. In 2024, she participated in a residency in Morocco organized by Caravane Tighmert, and her book “Et dans la terre, je me souviens” was launched at the Zoème bookstore in Marseille. She has been selected for the three-year transnational program Contested Desires : Constructive Dialogues, which engages artists to examine the legacy of European colonialism in museums and heritage sites.

 

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