Cove Park’s second residency as part of the Magnetic programme has been awarded to the Paris-based artist Carla Adra.

Carla Adra is a French and Canadian artist and performer with artistic and anthropological education in France, Canada and Mexico. Self-narratives and the experience of reciprocity are at the centre of Carla Adra’s practice. In public spaces or within structures, she collects words in exchange for a real life story, she proposes to shift the enunciation point, to put on a personal narrative as one puts on the other’s clothing, making individual testimonies resonate with shared experiences.

Her solo and group exhibitions have recently taken place at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Marina Abramovic Institute (Amsterdam), Mécènes du Sud (Montpellier, Sète, Beziers), 66è Salon de Montrouge (Montrouge), La Galerie CAC (Noisy-le-Sec), MACVAL (Vitry-sur-Seine), CAPC (Bordeaux), 15th Biennale de Lyon (Lyon), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (Reims), Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), Centre du Livre d’Artistes (St-Yrieix-la-Perche), Espace Niemeyer (Paris). Carla Adra’s work has been acquired by the Fonds d’art contemporain – Paris Collections. She is represented by the Gallery Valeria Cetraro (Paris).