The Foundation develops off-site residences in collaboration with comparable foundations internationally.
Current Residencies
The LAccolade Foundation and the NIROX Foundation are launching a French–South African exchange program.
The LAccolade Foundation – Institut de France and the South African foundation for contemporary art, NIROX, are collaborating within the framework of the Soil & Water residency and exhibition program.
French artists committed to environmental issues, Caroline Le Méhauté and Eugénie Touzé, supported by the LAccolade Foundation, have been invited by NIROX to the nature reserve at the heart of the UNESCO World Heritage “Cradle of Humankind.” They will also take part in the international exhibition opening on November 1, 2025, to be followed by a residency for South African artists at LAccolade in Paris.
Caroline Le Méhauté
Residency from 28/09/25 to 02/11/25
Nirox Foundation - Cradle of Humankind, South Africa
Caroline Le Méhauté develops a practice that intersects sculpture, installation, drawing, performance, and collective protocols. Her work explores living materials, processes of transformation, and the sensitive relationships between humans and non-humans.
Through [Tellus Project], she is currently engaging in active reflection on the restoration of degraded soils, combining artistic, ecological, and scientific approaches.
How to position oneself? How to connect? How to inhabit the world differently? These questions permeate her entire approach, where the artistic gesture becomes both an intimate exploration and an address to the collective.
Eugénie Touzé
Residency from 22/02/26 to 02/04/25
Nirox Foundation - Cradle of Humankind, South Africa
Eugénie Touzé is born in 1997, she lives and works between Paris and the Normandy region (Eure). Through photographic and videographic recording, she immerses herself in landscapes and captures scenes of the living world, traversed by time, seeking to capture their sensitive and sensorial dimension.
Her work has been featured in several solo and group exhibitions. She recently received the DJTAL Humain 2025 award from the Art Mercator association. She has undertaken several residencies, including at the Théâtre des expositions (Beaux-Arts de Paris) as an artist-curator; at the Domaine de Toury (Toury-sur-Jour, Nièvre) in an old farmhouse, invited by the Fertile association; at the Weiss Foundation (Paris), where she worked on the lingering presence of two photographs taken during a hike in the Romanian Carpathians; and at the Ateliers des Arques (Les Arques, Lot), invited by Emmanuel Tibloux, Director of ENSAD (Paris). She has just completed a residency at the Manoir de Soisay (Regional Natural Park of Perche, Orne), a historic site, alongside artist Tamara Morisset.
Past residencies
The Foundation is developing a nomadic residency program connected to the desert, in Palm Springs, California.
Sara Favriau
Residence from 11/15/23 to 01/03/24
The ELEMENTAL - Palm Springs, California
Sara Favriau explores both the status of the artwork and the ecosystem surrounding it, with an approach focused on circularity. Her artistic universe revolves around a dialogue between forms, symbols, and processes drawn from popular culture. Her works, which blend sculptures, installations, and performances, reveal a unique language that combines poetry and dramaturgy. Through evocative elements such as huts, canoes, bows, trees, and voguing, Favriau weaves a narrative where past, present, and future intersect. This interplay between metamorphosis, fiction, and essay gives rise to a world full of humor and subtlety, where traditional artistic boundaries are challenged. She thus offers a poetic form that reinvents the frameworks of contemporary creation.
A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Sara Favriau distinguished herself by winning the "Prix des Amis du Palais de Tokyo" in 2015. Since then, her work has been presented at major residencies and exhibitions. Notable projects include a tree-canoe crossing the Mediterranean Sea in 2021, and a residency in AlUla, Saudi Arabia, from 2021 to 2022. The artist has received institutional recognition, with her works included in many public collections, including those of FMAC, FDAC Essonne, FRAC Normandie Caen, and MAC VAL. Sara Favriau is represented by Galerie Maubert in Paris.
