Christelle Oyiri is a Paris-based artist whose practice combines music, moving image, performance, and sculpture. Also known under her musical alias CRYSTALLMESS, she develops a body of work that circulates between exhibition spaces and club culture, drawing on the forms, rhythms, and economies specific to subcultures.
Influenced by the thinking of Jean Baudrillard, Georges Bataille, and Michel Foucault, she creates setups in which sound, light, and sculpture interact to produce unstable regimes of perception. Her works engage bodies shaped by logics of transformation, projection, and constraint.
Radically transdisciplinary, her practice constructs contemporary mythologies where personal and collective experiences intertwine, revealing peripheral narratives often kept outside the dominant canon. In her musical practice, club music is approached as a structure of circulation and intensity rather than a genre. Her DJ sets move across forms such as grime, zouk, dancehall, logobi, afro-trance, and techno, weaving together heterogeneous rhythmic systems and imaginaries, often tied to histories of displacement, mutation, and survival.
Her work has been presented at Amant Foundation (New York); Zachęta (Warsaw); Centre Pompidou; Lafayette Anticipations (Paris); Tramway (Glasgow); Gathering (London); Auto Italia (London); Gladstone Gallery (New York); LAND (Los Angeles); Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt); LAS Art Foundation (Berlin); and Galerie Buchholz (Berlin), among others. Her installation PERPETUAL REMIX was first presented at Tate Modern in June 2025. In May 2025, she was invited by Arthur Jafa to participate in the exhibition Corps et âmes at the Bourse de Commerce.
