The Virtual & Hybrid Residency Program at Sinthome Residency emerges from a need to rethink presence, distance, and artistic exchange in contemporary practice. It is conceived for artists who, for personal, economic, or geographical reasons, cannot relocate for extended periods, yet seek sustained critical engagement within an international and interdisciplinary context.

Rather than understanding distance as a limitation, the program proposes it as a condition through which new forms of dialogue, attention, and reflection may unfold.

At its core, the residency is structured around a weekly online gathering. These sessions, held via Zoom and lasting between two and three hours, function as an open and evolving space for collective thinking. Each meeting is led by the Program Director and includes an invited psychoanalyst, whose presence introduces a specific mode of listening and interpretation. The sessions are not didactic but conversational—an open format where artists present their work, share processes, and engage in discussion with fellow residents, members of the team, and occasional guests.

The psychoanalytic dimension does not operate as a clinical framework, but as a discursive tool that allows for a deeper inquiry into artistic production—its motivations, its tensions, and its symbolic structures. Through this lens, the residency fosters a space where artistic practice can be articulated not only in formal or conceptual terms, but also in relation to subjectivity, desire, and narrative.

Alongside the weekly sessions, each participant is accompanied through moments of more focused exchange. Depending on the nature of their practice, artists may be connected with invited guests—curators, writers, theorists, or other practitioners—who can offer specific feedback. These encounters are conceived as precise and responsive, opening the work to external perspectives while remaining attentive to its internal logic.

The program is intentionally flexible in its structure. Artists may choose to participate entirely online, maintaining their practice within their own context while being in continuous dialogue with the group. Alternatively, a hybrid format allows participants to complement the virtual process with a short stay in Cali, Colombia, typically one or two weeks toward the end of the residency. This period offers the possibility of translating the discussions and developments of the online sessions into a spatial and public dimension.

During this optional in-person phase, artists may access studio space, organize an open studio, and present their work to a local audience through talks, screenings, or performative formats. The brevity of this stay is intentional—it responds to the practical constraints many artists face, while still enabling a meaningful encounter with place and community.

For those who wish, the residency can also be undertaken fully in person, following the structure of Sinthome’s on-site programs.

Across all formats, the residency is less a production-oriented program than a space for sustained reflection, exchange, and articulation. It privileges process over outcome, and conversation over prescription. What emerges is not a fixed result, but a repositioning of the work within a broader field of thought and relation.

In this sense, the Virtual & Hybrid Residency Program extends the ethos of Sinthome Residency beyond its physical location, while remaining grounded in its commitment to criticality, experimentation, and the singularity of each artistic practice.