BRITTANY-CYMRU RESIDENCY
17-29 NOVEMBER, 2025
In November 2025, artist Hadrien Delattre took part in a residency at Llantarnam Grange. Hadrian had recently graduate from EESAB de Lorient in Brittany, and this residency was his first time in Wales.
During the residency we visited galleries and museums across South Wales, and Hadrian took over Galley 2, using it as a studio to experiment and develop the new project What’s next?
This was shared on Saturday 29 November.
What’s next? is the beginning of a new research project on the question of the meaning of images. In the age of generative AI, where people have fun generating and sharing absurd, unreal situations, political figures and history on the Internet. Dancing with a bear, doing a arm-wrestling with a monkey, a simple gesture linked to an animal relationship that gives a funny, even likeable aspect for leaders or criminals. These images have become a new tool for politicians. The joke of one becomes a weapon for the other, a new way of creating false information and influencing public opinion.
What’s next? asks about the way we use and consume these images, to have a look back on their meanings, as well as the impact and scope they can have.
HADRIEN DELATTRE
Born in Paris, Hadrien started drawing in childhood. This love led him to study at an art school at the EESAB de Lorient, where he developed a practice of painting and video (animated film).
Inspired by comics and cinema, Hadrien creates sets that are pieces of incomplete stories. Drawing on family memories and stereotypical codes from pop culture, reality and fiction blur. Hadrian finds narrative in these fragments, exploring the potential of flash-backs, cutting action, and memory, to disrupt logic and play with what could be happening off-screen.
“I create fragments of stories that I unfold in a space, between family history, social, cultural and political. I am constantly looking to play between fiction and reality. In the era of social networks, where people have fun generating AI videos telling improbable situations or events. There is this report where the AI in its ability to improve day by day, worried some as it approaches a « reality ». It is also used by politicians to create their information, their stories ; all this fuels a factory of images.
For this residency, I would be interested in questioning myself on these subjects by starting to work first with documentation, going to dig into beliefs, myths, images of popular culture, then creating short narratives through drawing, painting, or even collage. In a work of experimentation, I would like to create narratives where the imaginary and the real coexist together.”
This project is in collaboration with EESAB de Lorient.
Funded by Visual Arts Group Wales (VAGW) Brittany-Cymru Project via Arts Council of Wales and Wales Arts International.
