Our residences

Hugo Bel

Hugo Bel was born in Paris in 1990 and lives and works in Normandy. He graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Toulouse with a DNSEP degree in 2016 and exhibited his work that same year at the Printemps de Septembre in Toulouse. He has been invited to exhibit at heritage sites such as the Abbaye-aux-Dames in 2019 (Caen) and the former Saint-Michel prison in 2021 (Toulouse). In 2020, Hugo Bel was selected to exhibit at the FRAC Occitanie Montpellier and in 2022 he was awarded the Prix Georges Coulon, a European prize for sculpture, attributed by the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 2023, he went on an artistic residency in Quebec on the Magdalen Islands, then participated in the residency programme with the Maison des Arts Georges et Claude Pompidou. In 2024, the Vallon du Villaret commissioned him to create an installation for its sculpture park. That same year, Neli Dobreva wrote about twenty pages on his work in her book ‘Living Objects 2. Forms of Life and Autonomy of the Non-Living’.

 

Engaged in creating sculptures and installations in situ, Hugo Bel bases his research on the concept of the membrane – a sensitive surface that reacts with its environment and allows something to pass through. This surface echoes our skin, our first filter in contact with the outside world. During his residency at the Fondation Fiminco, the artist will continue his research into materials, particularly sugar, with a view to designing sculptures and installations in situ.