Ernesto Oroza is the first guest of the Almanac residences. Artiste, designer et chercheur cubain, il s’intéresse notamment aux “architectures de la nécessité” et à la désobéissance technologique, ainsi qu’à d’autres sujets qui lient le design et la société en temps de crise économique et politique. It produces and distributes speculative and research models through various methods of publication, exhibitions, collaborative practices, documentaries, and unconventional forays into architecture, interior design, and building design. objects. In Cognac, he will work on the resource centers formed by Emmaüs and the recycling centers.

Ernesto Oroza

Ernesto Oroza is a designer, artist, researcher, graduate of the Higher Institute of Design at the University of Havana. He is responsible for the Design and Research 3rd cycle at the Saint-Étienne School of Art and Design.

Oroza has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the HARPO Foundation, as well as the Pernod Ricard grant from Villa Vassilieff. .His work has been presented at Documenta Fifteen, Kassel; at the Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; at MoMA, New York; at the Groninger Museum, the Netherlands; at the Perez Art Miami Museum, USA; at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Spain; at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; at the Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico; and at the Institut de Cultura La Virreina, Barcelona.