Nelly Feillant is an artist and doctoral candidate whose work explores the relationship between human beings and their own image, as well as the tension between the physical body and the mind, through pastel paintings. From an early age, she showed a strong interest in drawing, which led her to pursue artistic studies at the École des Arts de la Sorbonne in Paris in 2018. There, she refined her use of dry pastel, employing it at the boundary between drawing and painting.
She later shared this passion for exploring artistic media by teaching art-awareness classes to kindergarten and primary school students at the Chardin bilingual school in Paris. In 2023, through the Master’s program in Arts and Creation at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, she completed an exchange in New York, where she discovered the city’s contemporary art scene. Upon returning from this experience, she began her doctoral research entitled “Existing in Sensitive Spaces: Human Representation as an Instrument for the Expression of the Non-Verbal.”