Claire-Ania Virgile is a PhD student in English studies and a photographer of Indo-Martinican origin. Her academic research focuses on the memory of Caribbean women of Indian descent, through the lenses of Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Theory. Virgile is the author of the photobook Sacred Vision on Indo-Caribbean and Rastafari communities. In August 2025, she was appointed as Cultural Ambassador of Tamil Nadu by the state government as part of  Reaching Your Roots program. 

Instagram @indianaania

Photos Exibitions :

• Collective exhibition Au rythme de la Jamaïque - Fonds d'Art Contemporain. Curated by Pauline Bonnet & Magalie Dumoulin Guadeloupe, 5-31 December 2025

• Photos Chemins de guérisons‍ ‍with artist Patricia Donatien - Tropiques Atrium, Martinique. 7 June to 15 July 2025

• Solo exhibition Sacred Vision-La Station Culturelle. Martinique. May 6 2022.

Academic Publications:

• Archipélie 19 | 2025. Déracinement-Enracinement : de l’Inde à la Caraïbe. Indian Identity in Martinique: Diasporic Memory, Representations, and Performative Practices

• Synergies Inde n° 11 - 2022 p. 95-105. GERFLINT : Mémoire féminine indienne dans la Caraïbe française par les arts

International Conferences:

• Roja Muthiah Research Library Identities: Tamil Religious Heritage and Practices in Martinique.Chennai, 20 February 2026

• Uprooting - Rooting: From India to the Caribbean,Mumbai, 24-25 January 2024

Art Collaborations:

• Book cover for Patricia Donatien in Chemins de guérison. Les Éditions Baudelaire, Paris 2024.

• Photos catalog Les fleurs du Ya Ax Thé, Quarante ans d’art sous le Fwomajé for Tropiques Atrium Scène nationale 30 septembre - 28 décembre 2024.