Marion Mounic's work is a quest, a search for a symbolic faraway place, for her own roots, which she explores by questioning her own identity. How can we find ourselves in the other, the foreign, the distant territories we discover, taking care to attenuate the exoticism that could adorn them with a reductive veil? In her installations, the artist re-enacts her Moroccan wanderings, reactivating memories of an experience in which public and private spaces are intimately linked. She ventures to reconstitute a sensation, a moment, a memory, using recycled objects and materials. Her proposals oscillate between décor and ready-made, while leaving the viewer free to experiment with the work. The territory represented doesn't just make an image, it's experienced, felt, warms your skin and instantly moves you.
Marion Mounic works by taking, moving and transforming everyday objects within easy reach of the eye. Here, there are no false pretenses: the set doesn't lie, it proposes.
just a displacement, a motionless journey that enlivens our senses. The elements reappear in a plastic way, and whether they belong to the intimate or the universal, they convey an inventive and moving poetry of the everyday, conferring a blurred impression of familiarity and strangeness that appeals as much to our gaze as to our memory and imagination.
See the Video presentation of Marion Mounic's Residence
