BIOGRAPHY
Naïstini Valaydon (b.1997)
Naïstini Valaydon is a Mauritian visual artist whose practice explores the relationships between the body, memory, and identity through immersive visual environments.
Working across painting, video, and installation, she investigates processes of objectification, fragmentation, and bodily reclamation. Informed by her diasporic experience, her work brings cultural heritage, social structures, and intimate narratives into dialogue.
Her works create perceptual spaces in which the act of looking is both engaged and challenged. Through fragmented, sensory, and occasionally performative forms, she examines the tensions between visibility and invisibility, presence and dispossession.
The body emerges as an unstable territory, constrained, traversed, and continually reconfigured where questions of power, memory, and resistance are negotiated.
ABOUT
Born in Mauritius
Based in France
MFA, Chelsea College of Arts (UAL, London)
Exhibited in France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Romania
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February 2026, Art Capital 2026, Salon des Indépendants - Fonds de Dotation Opéra Art Collection, curated by Jean-Christophe Paolini, Grand Palais, Paris
February 2025, Art Capital 2025, Salon des Indépendants - Fonds de Dotation Opéra Art Collection, curated by Béatrice Dossou-Yovo, Grand Palais, Paris
May 2023, Mobu International Art Fair 2023, represented by Danuser & Ramirez Gallery, Bucharest
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2021-2022, MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London
2020-2021, Graduate Diploma Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London
2017-2020, Bachelors Degree in the Science of Communication, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
2019, Second year of Bachelors Degree in Photography and Music Technology, Coventry University (Erasmus)
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July 2024, Conversation, group show curated by the Fonds de Dotation Opéra Art Collection, Galerie Mona Lisa, Paris
March 2023, Hysterical, group show curated by Eliza Hatch & Bee Illustrates, Bermondsey Project Space, London
December 2022, Nowadays, group show, Florence Contemporary Gallery, Florence
September 2022, Handle With Care, group show curated by Mackenzie Montgomery & Clara Greenfield, Cookhouse Gallery, London
March - April 2022, Le Patriarcat Passe à la Casserole, group show, l'Atelier Marthe, Paris
March 2022, Fine Ants, group show, Cookhouse Gallery, London
February 2022, you Don't own Me, group show curated by Aida Paloma & Alina Savina, Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes, London
November 2021, Creatives of London City Island, group show, Lighthouse Gallery, London
May 2021, I'm Ready To Dance Again, Safehouse 1 & 2, London
March 2019, Digital Exhibition, group show with LAHAD and the Bushwick Community Darkroom, Brooklyn, New York