Meet Marie Marchandise
Check out solo show artist Marie and learn more about her latest series Movements. On view here now until August 1, 2021.
Movements Artist Statement
“Movements” is a two parts photoshoot that took place between Paris and Toulouse. It is a remote photoshoot whose photos resulting from it were printed and assembled in different collages. It is a collective work, with a team composed of talented persons: Michelle Tshibola, artist, seamstress, and owner of the brand Michelle TSM2, Agnès Tassel, model, Hugo Bardin, hair artist, Océane Susini, make up artist, and Marie Marchandise, photographer and art director.
As a vulnerable person suffering from a chronic illness, this quarantine made me wonder about how I could still manage to work with a team and photograph movements. Catching movements is indeed what I enjoy the most in photography. That's how I decided to create handmade collages at home with photographs that had previously been taken. These different artistic compositions enabled me to create specific movements and motions, find another type of energy and let my imagination run wild.
Through my work, I want to remind people that there are other ways to work as a photographer and that chronically ill artists must have access to creatively fulfilling opportunities.