Opening Thursday 9 April, 18.00-20.00
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Marie Bovo lives and works in Marseille. She is a French photographer and video artist whose practice is grounded in the poetic and the political. Working exclusively with natural light, often through long exposures that stretch deep into the night, she transforms familiar landscapes and spaces into something suspended between documentation and dream. She is particularly recognized for her series of nocturnal photographs, where extended exposures imbue scenes with an almost mystical quality. Deeply rooted in place, her work raises geopolitical and social questions through subtle, layered observation. Along railway lines to the domestic interiors of Ghana, from the windows of Algiers to the arctic shoreline of Lofoten, Bovo moves across geographies while remaining anchored in her own rhythm. Her most emblematic series are: Les plages (2003- 2005), Chimères et Transcosmos (2005), Bab-El- Louk (2006-2007), Feu (2007), Cours intérieures (2008-2009), Grisailles (2010), Jours blancs (2012), La Voie de chemin de fer (2012), Alger (2013), En route (2016), Stances (2017), En Suisse - le Palais du Roi (2019), Evening Settings (2019) and La luz o la sombra (2021).
Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles; La Chambre, Strasbourg; Fondation Fernet-Branca, Saint-Louis; California Museum of Photography, Riverside; FRAC Paca and MAC Musée d'art contemporain, Marseille; Institut Français, Madrid; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; and Luís Serpa Projectos, Lisbon. The artist has also taken part in numerous group exhibitions at the Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Maxxi, Rome; the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; the MAC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Marseille and the Busan Biennale, Korea. In 2016 Marie Bovo was nominated for the ICP Inifinity Awards in New York, for her exhibition "La danse de l'ours" at FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. The Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris devoted a solo exhibition to her in 2020 entitled “Nocturnes”, in 2023 she had a solo exhibition "L'Atelier volant" at the ART & ESSAI gallery in Rennes.
In 2026, Marie Bovo is a key figure in the "Réinventer la photographie" (Reinventing Photography) national commission organized by the French Ministry of Culture and the National Center for Visual Arts (Cnap). This initiative, celebrating the bicentenary of photography, features Bovo as one of 15 selected artists tasked with exploring the medium's future.