Marie Bovo

Born in Spain in 1967, Marie Bovo lives and works in Marseille. She engages in both video and photographic work. It is through her large photographic landscapes, heavily inspired by literature and poetry that nourish her deliberations and sensibility, that she gained international recognition in 2007. Her work is recognizable by the constant attention towards the understood as an imbrication of heterogeneous spaces, both physical and mental. She has participated in various prestigious contemporary art exhibitions and fairs such as “the Armory show” in New York, at the FIAC, as well as at the Biennale in Venice.

(Source : Paul di Felice)

Marie Bovo works with images, both video and photographic. Her photographs play with duality and antinomy. Deeply rooted in reality, they sometimes raise geopolitical and social issues. Her work reveals a dual perspective on things, making a simple and unique situation express a universal dimension, where the past meets the present, where different cultures, especially those of the Mediterranean world connect to each other.

The Cours intérieures (2008-2009) were shot in a popular area of Marseille. They are intermediate spaces, intercessors between the city, the street and the house. Her camera is directed upward, as in a sink where little light penetrates and it captures, in the form of an immaculate rectangle, the sky that lies above .

The series Grisailles (2010) was shot with a very similar protocol. Topographic features are missing. The architecture comes second, after this strange gray color that is ” color of aging, loss, degradation, it is the color of holes, open bites, negativity … ” . “Architecture remains important as a negative geometry, a vacuum that challenges our sense of perspective and presence, and defies conceptualization. “

(Source : Artist’s Website, Régis Durand)