Project Space Residency

Malaury Eloi (Pointe-á-Pitre Guadalupe)

August 17 – September 14, 2027

Artist statement

My practice moves between film, photography, sound, textile, and embroidery, exploring haunting as a political condition: the ways colonial histories persist within bodies, landscapes, and the built environment. I am interested in states of stagnation, decomposition, contamination, and disappearance, and in the body and the land as mirrors of colonial aftermaths. Central to my practice is what I call the residual matter of cinema: images, sounds, gestures, and fragments left behind by filmmaking, which I transform through editing, collage, printing, stitching, and installation in search of new forms of narration. I am currently developing an experimental moving-image project from nearly ten years of footage documenting the slow disappearance of places in Guadeloupe: demolitions, abandoned buildings, empty interiors, and fragmented bodies. Through this ongoing work, I explore how these residual images can be decomposed, displaced, and reassembled, creating connections between damaged architectures, contaminated landscapes, and the geographies of vulnerable and sick bodies.

Bio

Malaury Eloi Paisley is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and film curator from Guadeloupe. She studied art history and museology in Paris and Montreal, before pursuing filmmaking at Varan workshop in Guadeloupe and EICTV in Cuba. In 2026, she was a fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. She directed Chanzy Blues ( 30 min) and , L’Homme-Vertige: Tales of a City ( 93 min), premiered at the Berlinale in 2024 and has been presented at Centre Pompidou, BAM, Arsenal, and HKW. It received the Golden Stallion of Yennenga and Paul Robeson Prize at FESPACO. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, Variety, and Cahiers du Cinéma.

Project Space Residencies are supported by The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, The Joy of Giving Something Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and Monroe County, NY. Photography-based artists participating in the program receive support from the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.