International Residencies is a Dos Mares program. The aim is to place the guest artist in an interrogation of the process of distancing, not only geographically but also conceptually, affectively and contextually. Each of the three phases that structure this system (research, immersion and deployment) allows us to test our relationship to time, to the modalities of transition from employment to work, the question of the value of research and that of production, the relationship to the fulfillment of the being, the articulation between the different social and private relational dimensions.

The structure offers research residencies during which no production is expected, no public intervention imposed, no exhibition organized. This research is similar to what in the scientific field is called fundamental research, i.e. research that is not oriented towards a particular application, which in our field takes the form of a work. During several weekly meetings, of about 3 hours each, the permanent curators of Dos Mares, accompanied by occasional speakers, join the resident to develop an art research whose starting point is the work of the artist and his or her investigation project.