Célin Jiang

Célin Jiang (1993, France) is an artist-researcher (Paris/Shanghai). Her work deploys a “sensitive anthropology” of connected worlds, questioning the mutation of identities in contact with digital technology. At the crossroads of performance, sound creation and visual arts, she explores the frictions between bodies and virtual environments. In 2024, she represented the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale and was awarded the Performance Prize at the NOVA_XX Biennale. Her work has been presented at Ars Electronica, the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection and the Fondation Pernod Ricard. She combines creation and educational transmission around the issues of performance and cybercultures.

During her residency at Villa Medici, Célin Jiang explores the hauntology of grief within Rome’s palimpsest landscape. By bridging the gap between ancient funerary figures—such as the Manes and Lemures—and contemporary AI-driven “thanabots,” her work deconstructs the mechanisms of globalized memorial capitalism. Through an immersive methodology combining photogrammetry, sonic performance, and artificial intelligence, Célin Jiang renders tangible the frictions between physical absence and virtual persistence. Her research challenges the standardization of digital rituals, seeking to reinvest the digital vestige with ritual depth and sensory resonance. In a world where AI increasingly appropriates the voices of the departed, Célin Jiang proposes a critical and sensitive re-reading of our augmented memory and its new spectral territories.