Fonderie Darling is delighted to invite you to a studio visit by artists-in-residence Camille Bleu-Valentin, Claire Heiney and Jesús Hilario-Reyes, an opportunity to discover the research carried out during their stay. This free and staircase accessible event will take place on the 3rd floor. Conversations with Claire Heiney and Jesús Hilario-Reyes will take place in English.

CAMILLE BLEU-VALENTIN

Camille Bleu-Valentin’s practice revolves around the links between transmission, territory and trauma. Coming from a heritage that is both colonial and colonized, she develops projects in contexts far from major centers, seeking to create artistic spaces for communities often excluded from mainstream cultural offerings.

CLAIRE HEINEY

Claire Heiney is an artist and researcher based in Michigan, currently an MFA candidate at Michigan State University. Their practice explores tactility, bodily memory, and the intimacy of gesture. Their work incorporates materials sourced from their daily life: worn textiles, salvaged leather, and hair collected from the intimate space of the home. Through gestures such as sewing, burning, crumpling, or embossing, they explore the tensions between care and violence, desire, memory, and erosion.

JESÚS HILARIO-REYES

Currently based between Brooklyn and New Haven, Jesús Hilario-Reyes is an anti-disciplinary artist born in Puerto Rico. Their work revolves around various forms of movement—whether liberatory, performative, meteorological, or diasporic—and is rooted in a reflection on notions of migration, displacement, and transformation. Having traversed several regions of the United States, notably the Midwest, Hilario-Reyes has developed a practice rooted in the shifting realities of exile.