Kélanie’s work is deeply rooted in process. Her practice is guided by immersion—composing and developing music in direct relationship with nature, where landscape, silence, weather, and isolation become active collaborators.
Art residencies offer the conditions she values most: a defined time, a defined space, and the generative limitations that emerge from both.
Within these boundaries, her work expands. She is drawn to the clarity and intensity that arise when daily life is distilled to making, writing, cooking, singing, recording and observing.
35mm self portrait, art residency 2022
Vinhedo, São Paulo (countryside), Brazil — 2022
In 2022, Kélanie organized a three-day weekend residency in Vinhedo, in the countryside of São Paulo state. Joined by her bandmates and producers, she dedicated the time to developing the songs of her EP.
Throughout the residency, she prepared every meal as part of the creative process— approaching nourishment as an extension of songwriting and producing.
The shared immersion fostered a deep connection to the sonorities and textures of the project.
This residency was supported by Baer-Mate.
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Mata Aberta, São Paulo (countryside), Brazil — 2022
Later that year, Kélanie undertook a one-week solo residency at Mata Aberta, located in the countryside of São Paulo. Living alone in a cabin up the mountains with a handycam and the music of her EP Mundo, she filmed the project’s visual material in direct dialogue with the surrounding landscape. The solitude and sustained introspection between sound and environment became a defining element of the work.
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Can Silvestre Residency, Spain — Spring 2026
In Spring 2026, Kélanie will undertake a residency at Can Silvestre in Spain to develop her upcoming music project that uses the ecological process of decomposition as a metaphor for human transformation. Through songwriting and recording during this period, she translates biological stages of decay into emotional states of overexposure, disintegration, permeability, surrender, and integration.