She is a French-Brazilian architect and visual artist born in 1992. She co-founded the Dynamorphe collective in 2017, within which she creates light architectures. In terms of scenography and graphic arts, she develops projection devices and live drawing, especially after meeting with the collective company F71 during the revival of Lucie Nicolas' shows Noire and Songbook. She studied comics at the EESI of Angoûleme. She is the author of the comic strips Black Opera, which narrates the life of the Brazilian singer Maria d'Apparecida (Actes Sud - Year 2) and Ballade des dames du temps jadis, an investigation on the absence of women in the history of the University (Flblb and University of Poitiers). He is currently working on the Tekoha project, a fiction that traces the history of the territory of Dourados (Brazil) through the cross-recording of two families. The jury valued the themes of her project linked to the community, the territory, and the environment, as well as the link between her story and the graphic and narrative tools used. Clara Chotil is at a crucial moment in her career and the jury considered that the residency will be a boost both in the definition of the form of her works and in the development of her professional network.