From November 2010 to June 2011, Einat Amir will be participating in  Le Pavillon, Laboratoire de Creation of Palais de Tokyo, Paris

The Pavillon is a laboratory devoted to contemporary creativity in the visual arts. Its activities are focused on artistic research and it has been conceived along experimental lines.

Every year, our “training unit”—if it can be referred to as such, using inverted commas as a precaution—receives about ten artists and curators from all over the world. The keynote of their residency is the widening of their experience, the enrichment of their practice. Let’s not be reticent about it: this program is extremely ambitious. And for that very reason it gives rise to uncertainties and hesitations. Nonetheless it is also the best procedure for preserving a demanding attitude to creativity. The Pavillon receives the artists, sets out to listen to them, and tries to give them the resources to question their own esthetic operations. More than actual apprenticeship, it involves mentoring. It is a matter of offering the artists a chance to add depth to their way of working in a stimulating environment.