Descendant of Marie Valentin, a freed slave, and Pierre Bleu, a French soldier during the Algerian War, Camille Bleu-Valentin was born in 1995 in Paris. She spent her teenage years in New Caledonia before settling in Nantes, a former slave-trading port whose history further deepened her interest in colonial legacies. 

During her studies at the School of Fine Arts, she took part in an Erasmus exchange in Turkey, followed by several training programs in Sarajevo, focused on art in post-war contexts—considering artworks as sensitive documents of an emergency, produced during or after conflict. 

Her multidisciplinary artistic approach reflects the singularity of a complex French heritage, as she herself is a descendant of both colonizers and the colonized. She is currently continuing her research in several countries, with the goal of taking visual and plastic arts beyond major urban centers to benefit territories that are sensitive, traumatized, and far removed from cultural offerings. 

For this purpose, she has, for several years, chosen to focus on developing inclusive artistic practices, aimed at highly diverse audiences (schoolchildren from early childhood to higher education, migrants, nursing homes, associations, specialized institutions, disadvantaged neighborhoods, hospitals, prisons, and penitentiary centers). 

This residency is made possible with the generous support of the French Embassy and Villa Antipode