Located in San Rafael in the State of Veracruz, Mexico, Casa Proal is an old house, recently renovated, which was built at the end of the 19th century by French settlers from Haute-Saone. Surrounded by lush vegetation, this is a nice and comfortable house with red tiled roofs as we can still find in Burgundy, France.
The founder of the Casa Proal is one of the descendants of the French settlers who spread their agricultural work in banana production and cattle breeding.
Casa Proal is a place for residents which takes this heritage as a base. Its main objective is to provide an opportunity for artists from Francophone countries who work with various mediums, painting, photography, video, sound, writing, sculpture, etc. to implement, during four months, a project on site dedicated to nature and art.
Around plural disciplinary artistic practices, the Casa Proal Artist-in-Residence program wishes the creation of inedited works with a singular and sensitive look at the place, its history and natural environment, offering a new reading of the landscape of this region of Mexico to the residents and the visitors.