Artist Residency in Chantilly

Fangyou Belleli

Founder · Curator · Jury Member – Visual Arts, Music & Cross-Cultural Dialogue

Fangyou Belleli is a Paris-based artist and curator, founder of Silver Linings Arts and the Chantilly Residency. Her practice is rooted in a deep investigation of presence, gesture, and transformation, working at the intersection of visual art, spatial experience, and lived intensity.

As a member of the Chantilly Residency Jury, she brings a transdisciplinary vision in which visual arts engage in active dialogue with music and sound. With a wide and instinctive appetite for music — spanning classical repertoires, Chinese traditional music, and contemporary forms across genres — she approaches sound as an essential language for addressing the residency’s central themes: silence, constraint, memory, inner tension, and awakening.

Her personal practice of the cello, alongside her engagement with traditional Chinese instruments such as the erhu and guzheng, informs an embodied and non-symbolic approach to East–West dialogue — grounded in listening, physical resonance, and shared vibration rather than representation. This musical sensibility shapes her curatorial approach, conceiving exhibitions as living environments where painting, sound, and human presence converge.

Alongside her artistic work, Fangyou Belleli cultivates demanding personal disciplines including archery and fencing, which she understands as practices of focus, precision, and ethical alignment. These embodied practices reflect her broader vision of art as a form of responsibility — an active, conscious way of inhabiting the world.

Through her role on the jury, she supports artists capable of sustained, research-based engagement and fosters long-term cultural bridges between China and France — not through exile, but through unification, transmission, and shared artistic language.

Julien Moreau

independent curator and art historian

Julien Moreau is an independent curator and art historian based between Paris and Brussels. He holds a Master’s degree in Art History and Curatorial Studies. His work focuses on contemporary painting, process-based practices, and the relationships between embodied experience, memory, and spatial narration. 

With experience working alongside artist-led spaces, alternative galleries, and residency programs, Julien has contributed to exhibition strategy, curatorial research, and the development of exhibition narratives. His practice includes supporting long-term artistic processes, assisting in exhibition development, and articulating curatorial frameworks that respect the temporal and material conditions of artistic work. 

At Silver Linings Arts, Julien contributes to curatorial research, exhibition strategy, and the development of thoughtful, process-oriented exhibitions and residency platforms.

Clota Villegas Carusso

Composer · Cellist · Jury Committee Member – Music & Sound Dimension

Clota Villegas Carusso is an Argentinean composer, cellist, and sound engineer whose work stands at the crossroads of contemporary music, electroacoustic research, and embodied listening. Her artistic practice explores sound as a living structure — a space where silence, tension, and memory become expressive forces.

Within the Chantilly Residency Program, she plays a central role in shaping the music and sound dimension of the project. As a member of the Jury Committee, Clota supervises and mentors the selected Chinese musician, guiding the composition of an original work developed in dialogue with the residency’s core themes: repression, suffocation, silencing, aging, the tension between material abundance and spiritual poverty, and the subtle distinction between pain and suffering, grief and melancholy.

Over the course of a year, through regular conservatory-based work in Paris and dedicated private workshops, the winning musician will develop a new composition rooted in both contemporary creation and Chinese traditional musical instruments. This work will culminate in a live performance during the post-residency exhibition WAMA – The Silent Awakening, performed alongside Fangyou Belleli (cello), Clota Villegas Carusso (cello), and invited Paris-based musicians.

Deeply engaged in transmission and cross-cultural dialogue, Clota also accompanies the selected musician beyond France. She will travel to China with Fangyou Belleli to support the artistic and practical preparation of the musician’s arrival in Paris, ensuring continuity, integrity, and depth in the artistic process. Through her presence, the Chantilly Residency affirms music not as an accompaniment, but as a structural and transformative dimension — a shared language capable of bridging cultures through vibration, restraint, and attentive listening.

Thierry Belleli

Strategic & Artistic Advisor

Thierry Belleli is a photographer, curatorial advisor, and strategic partner of the Chantilly Residency. With a background in engineering and more than four decades of international experience across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, he brings operational clarity, logistical intelligence, and long-term strategic vision to the residency framework.

Within the Jury, Thierry oversees structural aspects of the program, including organizational coherence, logistical coordination, and administrative sustainability. As an early investor and financial supporter of the Chantilly Residency, he plays a foundational role in securing the conditions that allow artists to work with focus, dignity, and continuity.

His photographic sensibility — grounded in attention to light, atmosphere, and detail — informs a curatorial approach that values restraint, precision, and depth. A lifelong, discreet musician (piano, French accordion, and voice), he understands sound as a dimension of presence and rhythm rather than performance, reinforcing the residency’s commitment to embodied and interdisciplinary practices.

Through his role, Thierry Belleli ensures that the Chantilly Residency rests on both artistic integrity and solid structural foundations, allowing the project to unfold with stability, care, and long-term vision.

Lumi Aurelian

Curatorial Assistant · Art History & Critical Research · Legal & Administrative Coordination
Jury Member – Research, Ethics & Artist Mobility

Lumi Aurelian is a curator, art critic, and research-based cultural advisor working at the intersection of artistic practice, art history, philosophy, and lived human experience. Her curatorial approach is grounded not in selection alone, but in deep listening — to gesture, intention, time, and the invisible threads that connect artists to their work and to the contexts in which it unfolds.

Within the Chantilly Residency Jury, Lumi brings a strong analytical and critical framework informed by extensive cross-disciplinary knowledge spanning art history, contemporary practices, psychology, and ethics. Her role focuses on evaluating the conceptual coherence of projects, their research depth, and their capacity to engage responsibly with long-term, process-based artistic development.

Alongside her curatorial and critical work, Lumi has formal training in law and legal systems, with particular sensitivity to international mobility, residency frameworks, and institutional compliance. She plays a key role in supporting the legal and administrative coordination of the residency, ensuring that selected artists — particularly those arriving from China — are accompanied through French and Schengen visa procedures, residency regulations, and social and administrative requirements in a clear, lawful, and secure manner.

Her practice is also informed by a lifelong relationship to music — not as performance, but as sensibility. Rhythm, silence, resonance, and listening shape her understanding of artistic processes, allowing her to perceive how visual, spatial, and sonic dimensions intersect within an artist’s work.

At the Chantilly Residency, Lumi Aurelian acts as a stabilizing and ethical presence, bridging intuition and structure, creativity and law, care and rigor. She works closely with artists not to define their identity, but to help them articulate their singularity while navigating the concrete realities of creating and living in France — legally, safely, and with dignity.