Christelle Oyiri
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.
