CHAMYAZ ( b. 1975 )
1993-1998 Institut Supérieur d’Architecture Saint-Luc Liège ( BE )
1996-1997 Università di Architetturà IUAV Di Venezia ( I )
1998- 2000 Université de Marseille Luminy / Master en Urbanisme ( FR )
2000 - 2001 Architecte @ Agence d’Architecture Art & Built, Bruxelles ( BE )
2001 - 2018 Head of Urban planning department @ Jim Clemes Associates s.a. à Esch/Alzette ( LU )
2019 - 2024 Founder @ BWSTUDIO Architecture design and Urban planning ( LU )
2024- ( ) Multidisciplinary artist ( visual arts/ architecture/ photography/ paintings/... LU )
Chamyaz (b. 1975)
Belgian-Luxembourgish artist, living and working in Luxembourg
Transhumanism versus Transanimalism
An architect and urban planner for 25 years, Chamyaz is now fully dedicated to visual artistic creation. As a multidisciplinary artist, she currently expresses herself through painting. Revisiting her long-cherished themes, she now workswith new tools and techniques. Her reflections focus on the mutation of humanity, a transformation that has been accelerated to an exponential speed, often beyond human control, overwhelmed by its own unexamined internal changes
Humanity, through the grand modernist project of the 18th century, has become disillusioned, realizing its delusion of total mastery over nature and the processes of life. This illusion has guided humanity into a dead end. Now, it is slowlybecoming aware of its failure. Is the only possible solution, in the face of a society corrupted by greed and relentless progress, for the living beings themselves to reclaim control of the planet? The new generations no longer dream of a better future as before but fear for their future and their disappearance.
Humanity is gradually losing its illusion of omnipotence in the face of a resurgent, increasingly vocal nature. A nature that raises its voice after years of abuse and silence. A reign of the living that designs and constructs or deconstructs(through natural disasters), now imposing rules that humans cannot evade.
Transanimalism versus Transhumanism. The reign of the living, whether plant or animal, with its intrinsic adaptability far superior to that of humans, is gradually reclaiming power over a deeply shaken humanity. Chamyaz’s utopia reaches itspeak in the idea of a fusion between humans and animals, and plants, creating a hybrid species more capable of living harmoniously with its environment
In her work, mutant beings emerge, hybrids with both human and animal natures, alluding to primitive archetypal figures. She explores the dichotomy between the civilized world and nature, which she aims to abolish, seeking a restoredoriginal symbiosis—a grand merging.
Her utopian world also addresses other major contemporary issues stemming from this initial illusion of omnipotence: the growing, insidious deprivation of freedom, the question of patriarchy, the position of women in society, and the atrocities committed by humans. Her reflections illustrate human barbarity: dismembered, mutilated bodies, and birds with broken wings, painting a picture of growing evil.
Could the salvation of our planet and humanity come from a grand merging, a salvific hybridization where the human ego is absorbed by the pure and noble primitivity of animals? Her work continues to illustrate, in a way, a final world, a last civilization. Like all civilizations, we are transient, passing through an entropic world destined to disappear. Will we be able to transform the paradigms for its preservation, even if temporary, or will we witness the emergence of a future species?
“Transhumanism or Transanimalism?”
