< input > with Christelle Oyiri
Entrusted to the journalist and critic Julien Bécourt, the cycle <input> attempts to establish intergenerational junctions between the fields of visual arts, experimental music and pop culture. Each talk, punctuated by listening sessions, highlights the conditions of production of the works and their sources of inspiration. Creation is considered in an open, non-hierarchical way, whether in music, installation, painting, performance, video art or cinema.
Christelle Oyiri is an artist based in Paris. Her practice combines music, visual art, performance, and sculpture, with a focus on memory and structures of power. Also known as CRYSTALLMESS, she draws on the languages of subcultures to explore the psychological aftereffects of displacement and erasure. Influenced by Jean Baudrillard, Georges Bataille, and Michel Foucault, she creates environments where the boundaries between the sacred and the synthetic, the intimate and the systemic, become porous.
Her work has been presented at Lafayette Anticipations, Tramway, Gladstone Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Gathering, and the Museum für Moderne Kunst. Her installation PERPETUAL REMIX premiered at Tate Modern in June 2025 as an exploration of beauty standards through remixing, where the body is deconstructed and then reconstructed, producing artificial forms of Black femininity.
Alongside her exhibition work, Oyiri maintains an active musical practice and has conceived EDGING, a hybrid format at the intersection of party and laboratory, designed as a space for experimentation around the club. Her work has intersected with that of artists such as Frank Ocean and Solange, notably through a contribution to Go Slow (Eldorado Ballroom). In May 2025, she was also invited by Arthur Jafa to present readings, images, and music as part of the exhibition Corps et âmes at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris.
Christelle Oyiri is a Paris-based artist whose practice blends music, moving images, performance, and sculpture. Also known by her musical alias CRYSTALLMESS, she creates work that moves between exhibition spaces and clubs, drawing on the forms, rhythms, and dynamics specific to subcultures.
Influenced by the ideas of Jean Baudrillard, Georges Bataille, and Michel Foucault, she designs installations where sound, light, and sculpture interact to produce unstable modes of perception. Her works engage bodies subjected to logics of transformation, projection, and constraint.
Radically transdisciplinary, her work composes contemporary mythologies where personal and collective experiences intertwine, revealing peripheral narratives often kept at a distance from the dominant canon. In her musical practice, club music is conceived as a structure of circulation and intensity rather than as a genre. Her DJ sets traverse forms such as grime, zouk, dancehall, logobi, Afro-trance, and techno, articulating rhythmic regimes and heterogeneous imaginaries, often linked to stories of displacement, mutation, and survival.
Her work has been shown at the Amant Foundation (New York); Zachęta (Warsaw); the Centre Pompidou (Paris); Lafayette Anticipations (Paris); Tramway (Glasgow); Gathering (London); Auto Italia (London); Gladstone Gallery (New York); LAND (Los Angeles); the 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 (London) 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 (Paris).
