Hélio Volana is an interdisciplinary artist at the crossroads of sound, visual and performance art. Helio in Greek refers to the sun, Volana to the moon in Malagasy. This fluidity in the in-between is reflected in his work, which sees sound as a place of porosity.
Iel is a graduate of the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and of a course in electroacoustic composition at the Conservatoire de Pantin.
Beneficiary of the MIra mobility grant from
the Institut Français iel will be welcomed in residence in Madagascar in January and
February 2024, one year after his participation in the group exhibition Feon’ala
(the cry of the forest) at the Isart Galerie in Antananarivo.
Iel is a recipient of the FoRTE grant (2024, Île-de-France Region) and the MIRA grant (2024, Institut Français).
As a performer, iel has collaborated with Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust, Antonija Livingstone, Boris Charmatz and Carole Douillard, among others. He has also performed at the Fondation Fiminco, Lafayette Anticipations, La Ménagerie de Verre, the Musée du Louvre, the Centre Pompidou and the Théâtre des Brigittines (Belgium).