Artist in Residence

Chloé Valorso is a Spirit Artist Jeweller. Trained at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art, she explores the symbolic and energetic relationship between body, material, and environment. Working primarily with metal and stone through techniques such as lost-wax casting and carving, her practice merges ancestral craft with surrealist assemblage

During the residency, she will combine carved stones with sculptural wax carving and lost-wax casting to create a new series of jewellery-sculptures. The residency will also initiate a small editorial zine documenting the research, alongside an open studio, talk and participatory ritual workshop.

Mathijs Hunfeld is a London-based interdisciplinary artist exploring the overlap between fine art and consumer culture. His practice interrogates
fantasy, desire, and identity, often recontextualising everyday objects to expose the tension between glorification and collapse in late capitalism. Through satire, irony, and
branded bodies of work, he critiques emotional dependencies and self-sabotaging behaviour in pop culture.

During his residency he will be developing a body of work titled WORLDWIDE, a series of sculptural and digital accessories that explore the paradox of global connectivity and individual isolation in contemporary culture.

Andrew Agutos is a Paris-based multidisciplinary artist whose work integrates abstract painting, cultural collaborations and Polaroid photos.

During his residency at art’otel, Agutos aims to develop a new series of introspective works on canvas. Each painting, individually titled with a stanza, will culminate in a continuous poem installed in the hotel’s gallery at the end of the residency.

Mia Wilkinson is a UK-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice interrogates Western constructions of the domestic female through painting, drawing, collage and rapidly produced sculptural forms.

During her residency Mia will treat the hotel as a site of temporary domesticity and a place of service, anonymity, confession, and ritual. In the heart of East London, where private lives and public performance constantly collide, she will develop a new body of paintings, drawings, and sculptural forms that respond to the hotel as both shelter and stage.

Vivien Carolyn Reinert (b. 1995, Hamburg, Germany) is a London-based mixed-media artist working across textiles, surface design and public art through techniques like screen and digital printing, quilting and digital embroidery.

During her residency Vivien is planning to create a multi-panelled mixed-media textile installation that documents and responds directly to the surrounding neighbourhood of Shoreditch.