Natacha NISIC

Born in 1967 in Grenoble, France, Nisic attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Deutsche Filmund Fernsehakademie Berlin, and La Fémis in Paris. Her highly acclaimed solo exhibition “Echo” (Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2014) and other work questions the nature of the image through media including Super 8 and 16mm film, video, photography and drawing. She has exhibited internationally and participated in numerous residencies, including at Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto, 2001 and 2016).

DAIMARU Ken

Born in Fukuoka, Japan. Following periods of residence in Hiroshima and Brussels, he has been living in Paris since 2003. He is a history researcher at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) France-Japan Foundation. His research has ranged across an array of topics, from the social and cultural history of Japan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to medical history during the Russo-Japanese War and the Second World War, focusing on the understanding of subjects central to human experience: violence, the body, the suffering, and the emotions. During the period 2011–2012, he wrote prolifically on questions of health and emotional responses in the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.