Aélia Morel

Raised on Brittany’s tidal flats, Aélia collected shells, seaweed, and dead fish as a child, sketching “marine debris archives.” She says: “My love for life began with its decay and reassembly.” After dual training in art and biology, she chose painting over lab work — turning her canvas into a hybrid laboratory. She scans microscopic images, anatomical plates, and antique botanical illustrations, then overpaints, recombines, and reimagines them. Her series Nexus (I...