Marie Bovo
Born in 1967 in Alicante (Spain), MARIE BOVO lives and works in Marseille (France). 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. Kamel Mennour and Marie Bovo have been working together since 2004.
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; Luís Serpa Projectos, Lisbon and Fondation ERA, Moscow.
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 Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris devoted a solo exhibition to her in 2020 entitled “Nocturnes”, and the ART & ESSAI gallery in Rennes in 2023 entitled “L’Atelier volant”.
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