Portrait of Vidya-Kélie, Burning Blue brooch. Photo: Giulia Mirabille, 2025.
Born in 1984. Lives and works in Paris.
A transmedia artist, Vidya-Kélie graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Angers. She began her career by exhibiting abstract paintings depicting bodies transformed by their emotions.
She then explored the intersection between art and media sciences. In continuous training, graphic design and computer programming have allowed her, for over ten years, to expand her practice into the digital realm. Her works, often interactive, poeticize the connections between the human body and its environment. She is now also focusing on transmitting the stories of territories through astronomy and media, notably through noble materials such as marble, gold, and copper.
Her current project, Burning Blue, continues and deepens this research as a proof-machine developed by Vidya-Kélie, transforming astronomical data into narrative forms. At the intersection of science, computation, and cosmic observation, the work constructs situated correspondences between celestial bodies and human events, where data becomes both archive and storytelling material, and where stellar formations emerge as contemporary totems.
In 2022, she was selected by ORLAN, renowned feminist visual artist, for the contemporary digital art competition OPLINE PRIZE, where she won the Public Prize. In 2023, she became a laureate of ISEA (International Symposium of Electronic Art) with her work Hypercodex.org, exhibited at the Forum des Images in Paris.
Vidya-Kélie’s work is now exhibited internationally, notably in London, New York, Istanbul, and Tokyo. She is also invited to speak at conferences and roundtables to share her experience and artistic practice. Alongside her artistic work, she is an artistic advisor at HARDDISKMUSEUM and curator and coordinator of the collectives Plateforme-Paris, Kind of Kin, and the Biennale de l’Image Tangible.