Chery Boegly

Kelly Chery is a Franco-Caribbean visual artist and performer who graduated in 2024 from the École supérieure de l’image in Angoulême. Her multidisciplinary work combines poetic writing, performance, video, and immersive installation to explore the connections between memory, territory, and diasporic identity.

Through both documentary and fictional approaches, she questions the transmission and legacy of narratives silenced by colonial history. Originally from the Parisian suburbs, she frames her practice as a personal quest for cultural reappropriation, linking urban and rural landscapes in Europe, the Caribbean, and West Africa. Her work is based on archiving fragments—testimonies, abandoned objects, songs, and gestures—to create spaces where past and present confront each other.

Currently, she seeks to deepen her research through residencies (Summer Program – Angoulême, ArtMessiamé – Togo), particularly in Catalan and rural territories, with the aim of expanding her work on diasporic narratives, landscapes, and evolving imaginaries. Her vibrant and polyphonic art offers a sensitive immersion into buried memories and possible decolonial futures.

Kelly will be in residence at Can Serrat from May to October 2025.