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RESUME
Célia Hay is a French visual artist currently doing a PhD in Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Texas at Dallas. She holds an MA in Photography from Central Saint Martins (2016).
Her work mixing film, photography and installation depicts isolated social misfits wandering, on their journey to mysterious existential quests. Characters who have left the world to carry out uncanny and rebellious gestures of intimacy which are theirs only, and invent new ways to love and to exist. Themes of mourning, sisterhood, rituals and how the loss of words can establish bonds in ways that defy societal rules, are at the core of her practice.
Her work has been supported by Channel 4 Random Acts, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London, Arts Council England, Dazed Magazine, etc, internationally shown at BAFTA qualifying London Short Film Festival, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Videoex Festival (Zürich), Microwave International Arts Media Festival (Hong Kong), the festival MODE Exchange (Tokyo), etc, and exhibitions at ICA London, Fondation Fiminco (Paris), Kyoto Art Center, Collection Lambert (Avignon), BétonSalon (Paris), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Art-o-rama art fair (Marseille). A retrospective of her films will take place in July 2024 as part of the Séance Film Festival (Bethlehem, PA).