Stella Particula — “Star Dust” in Latin — is a French artist working as a director, art director and animator across 3D animation and analog glitch, and in AI-assisted video. Their practice explores landscapes of duality — emotion and insensitivity, consciousness and unconsciousness, materiality and the intangible — treating the human body as a vessel for states of mind drawn from the past, present or future.
Stella Particula was born in France to a French father and a Costa Rican mother, and moved to Damascus, Syria at two months old when their parents relocated there for work, living there for six years. The project began with an experience of depression that lasted seven years, during which they created new visions to travel through rather than confront its reality directly. In their words, every image carries “a sparkle of hope and light — a projection of survival instinct that guides someone to expect a better future”. They describe the resulting figures as posthumans: projections of the future built from a present or past state.
