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ArtistTalk: Soma-Witnesses

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Welcome to a conversation between IASPIS artist in residence Antonin Giroud-Delorme and curator Alida Ivanov. With participation of Laura Fiorio, Konstantinos Giotis and Samir Laghouati-Rashwa.

Alida Ivanov, Portrait by Katya L.
Antonin Giroud-Delorme, Photo by IASPIS.

At 17:30, artist Antonin Giroud-Delorme joins curator Alida Ivanov in conversation about Soma-Witnesses (lethal jurisdiction), a site-specific installation conceived and realised in the IASPIS studios.

Studios open from 17:00 — before the talk, visitors are welcome to explore the studios of Antonin Giroud-Delorme, and other IASPIS artists in residence Laura Fiorio, Konstantinos Giotis and a video screening of the video work Ghosts (2025, 6 min) by Samir Laghouati-Rashwa.

About the work

The series of works Soma-Witnesses by Antonin Giroud-Delorme functions as studio-produced crafts adjoined by a process-oriented part engaging with other people’s contributions within the artworks themselves. As a pragmatic apparatus of production and socialization of the research itself, the idea of a methodology combining studio-based practice and participatory process aims to facilitate different speeds for the artist’s practice in general, substantially yet socially and ecologically, as well as to concretize specific artworks’ outcome.

Around the topic of death and fear as a collective bond, the pieces Soma-Witnesses (lethal jurisdiction) are bridging the image of an alternative domestic pipes network and a tangible network of people embodied by other artifacts hosted together in the glass containers of the installation.

Following ongoing interests around questions of the somatic and its social dimensions, the participatory aspect — through very small offerings — aims to give a more concrete composition to sculptural arrangements and their symbolic status, while exploring image-making as a social construct.

For this iteration, Antonin has operated from the IASPIS studio itself, creating a site-responsive artwork scaled to the space. The participation process involved two groups from governmental institutions: the Swedish Defense University and the Swedish Art Grant Committee. This has enabled a personalised cell of trust and confidence with each participant, materialising new poetics of entanglement through the presentation of the work.

The evening concludes in the IASPIS kitchen with snacks, drinks, and conversation.

Bios

Antonin Giroud-Delorme is a visual artist based in Amsterdam, working across installation and sculpture. His practice explores transformation, decay, and disruption, questioning how images are constructed and what they conceal. He studied at L’École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Dijon and the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam. His work has been shown internationally, including at SKF/Konstnärshuset (Stockholm), Arti et Amicitiae (Amsterdam), and Les Limbes (Saint-Étienne).

Konstantinos Giotis is a visual artist based in Athens. Working mainly in painting and drawing, his imagery merges reality and fiction through dense, layered compositions featuring spectral figures, pop references, and an electric palette. Giotis studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (MFA) and the University of Ioannina (BA). His recent exhibitions include Eins Gallery (Limassol), Hot Wheels (Athens), and gb agency (Paris).

Laura Fiorio is a Berlin- and Italy-based artist working with photography, installation, and collaborative practice. Her projects engage with archives and site-specific contexts, exploring the politics of memory and the critical potential of the image. She holds degrees from IUAV (Venice), Middlesex University (London), and Alice Salomon Hochschule (Berlin), and has exhibited internationally at institutions including the Venice Biennale, Triennale Milano, and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Milan.

Alida Ivanov has worked with contemporary art for over 20 years as a curator, producer, gallerist, communicator, and writer. She holds a master’s degree from the Curating Art Program at Stockholm University and has previously worked as the artistic director of SKF/Konstnärshuset in Stockholm, producer at Spritmuseum, gallery manager at Elastic Gallery, curator at Göteborgs konsthall; she is also the co-founder of the gallery NSFW/Svilova in Gothenburg. Today, she works as a curator and art project manager at ArtPlatform.

Samir Laghouati-Rashwan is an artist working with film, photography, and sculpture to build narratives from archival material, exploring the politics of space and bodies, and representations of the Other, race, and the body in cultural and institutional contexts. During his IASPIS residency, he continues Slowness as a Resistance, a project inspired by Houston’s DJ Screw and low-rider culture, framing slowness as opposition to hyper-productivity and capitalism. His work has been shown internationally, including at MRAC Sérignan, MEP Paris, Material Mexico, Usine C Montréal, NGBK Berlin, P21 Gallery London, Les Urbaines Lausanne, CAC Brétigny, Kadist Paris, Magasins Généraux Pantin, Rencontres d’Arles, Manifesta 13 Marseille, Triangle-Astérides Marseille, and Art-O-Rama Marseille.