Hugo Mir-Valette

Hugo Mir-Valette is an artist and composer. Now based in Marseille, the city of his roots and the one closest to his heart, Hugo runs the studio-laboratory @editingworldgrid_, which specialises in the practice of deep listening. He creates works and technologies dedicated to counter-narratives and maritime cultures, focusing on a pan-frequency, fluid musicality that attunes to languages and natural phenomena. His artistic practice encompasses soundtracks, experimental films, installations, performances and written works.

Alongside Saber Zammouri, he took part in the ‘Résistances & Désobéissances’ programme, a cross-residency organised by the Citadelle as part of the 2026 Mediterranean Season, initiated by the Institut Français. He takes as his starting point the imprisonment between 1939 and 1942 at the Citadelle in Marseille of Habib Bourguiba, the Tunisian independence leader who later became the country’s head of state. In doing so, he raises the specific question of the role of prison as a place where forms of resistance and disobedience are forged.