Loading
le
independent art room
  • Le Cube
  • Exhibitions
  • Events
  • Residencies
  • Artists
  • Editions
  • Library
  • Practical info
fr

Marion Mounic

Born in 1992, Marion Mounic lives and works in Sète. As a visual artist, she explores the mobility and plasticity of the eye and spirit that she refers to as visual devices. She creates atmospheres enabling the creation of multisensory experiences. The visitor’s altered vision leads him to a place of an alternation between the hidden and the shown, where perception becomes ambivalent.

 

D’où vient, d’où vient-il
Que tu en aies

et les yeux

et les lèvres
et la couleur

et la chair de sapotille

dont la saveur en EXIL m’obsède tant.
Léon-Gontran damas – Pigments – névralgies (1972)

 

“Marion Mounic works with space, light, time and memory. Her installations that are always sculptural, trigger resistance towards oblivion and obscurity. Resistance is activated by physical and sensorial experiences.

The artist tracks different sources: one of her mother who is suffering from an eye illness, as well as that of her origins that are intimately linked to Morocco because of her father.

She went there for the first time in 2016, to see, feel and understand. She is attentive to the details of everyday life: behaviors, habits, and materials. It is then a question of retaining sensations: olive oil in the kitchen, pressure cookers, a neon sign, the sun in one’s eyes, the smell of dust. These elements take a plastic appearance.

Thus, the artist dips the Coran in an olive oil bath (Propre cuisine – 2018), she connects pressure cookers to electric engines, which, when placed on the floor, start a strange dance with different cadences (Samâ’ -2018). By extension, these artworks address the role of women, who are assigned to the domestic space, creating a territory of resistant words and gestures.

Marion Mounic’s practice is in fact based on a story about women. Several artworks like Chroma (2018), Angiographie (2018), Open (2018) ou Macula (2018) are sensorial experiences striving to emulate her mother’s eyesight.
Our bodies are put to the test of darkness, space, and light. Between disclosure and disappearance, the artist creates symbolic spaces in an attempt to materialize the unspeakable. Indeed, it is about embracing memory with the use of our body, to make us see it, feel it, touch it, hear it. Marion Mounic seeks the sources of her memory, her own, her family’s and by extension ours.

Her artworks express both a melancholy of powerlessness vis-à-vis of an inescapable disappearance and a vital impulse, a poetic eagerness to hold on to anything that escapes.”

“Aux Sources“, text by Julie Crenn

 

Website of the artist

Page of Marion Mounic on documents d’artistes Occitanie

expositions & événements

Talk - event

Marion Mounic

14.10.21
residency

Marion Mounic

01.10.21
Marion Mounic, Propre cuisine Coran, huile d’olive, plateau métallique, 40 x 10 x 30 cm, 2018 Vue de l’exposition Visio, Le Parvis, Tarbes, 2018 Œuvre lauréate de la 17e édition de la biennale d’art contemporain - CRAC Champigny-sur-Marne Crédit photo : Cyril Boixel
"Propre cuisine", 2018
Coran, huile d’olive, plateau métallique, 40 x 10 x 30 cm
Vue de l’exposition "Visio", Le Parvis, Tarbes, 2018
Œuvre lauréate de la 17e édition de la biennale d’art contemporain - CRAC Champigny-sur-Marne
Crédit photo : Cyril Boixel
Marion Mounic, CHEAP Tubes en verre, schweppes, lumière noire, 300 x 100 x 20 cm, 2016 Vue de l’exposition Mezzanine Sud, Les Abattoirs Musée - FRAC Occitanie Toulouse, 2019 Crédit photo : Cyril Boixel
"CHEAP", 2016
Tubes en verre, schweppes, lumière noire, 300 x 100 x 20 cm
Vue de l’exposition "Mezzanine Sud", Les Abattoirs Musée - FRAC Occitanie Toulouse, 2019
Crédit photo : Cyril Boixel
Marion Mounic, Débris Série, cyanotypes, gravas, fer, dimensions variables, 2019 Vue de l’exposition, Festival des Arts, Soueich, 2019 Crédit photo : Stéphane Migot
"Débris", 2019
Série, cyanotypes, gravas, fer, dimensions variables
Vue de l’exposition, Festival des Arts, Soueich, 2019
Crédit photo : Stéphane Migot
Marion Mounic, Angiographie, Glaçon de fluorescéine, lumière noire, carrelage, dimensions variables, 2018 Vue de l’exposition Mezzanine Sud, Les Abattoirs Musée - FRAC Occitanie Toulouse, 2019 Crédit photo : Stéphane Migot
"Angiographie", 2018
Glaçon de fluorescéine, lumière noire, carrelage, dimensions variables
Vue de l’exposition "Mezzanine Sud", Les Abattoirs Musée - FRAC Occitanie Toulouse, 2019
Crédit photo : Stéphane Migot
Marion Mounic, Tanja Balia, 2019 Photographie, 59,4 x 42 cm Vue de l’exposition, Mulhouse 019 – Biennale de la jeune création contemporaine
"Tanja Balia", 2019
Photographie, 59,4 x 42 cm
Vue de l’exposition, Mulhouse 019 – Biennale de la jeune création contemporaine
Marion Mounic, Samâ’ Cocottes-minute, moteurs, 2018 Vue de l’exposition Mutations, CACN, Nîmes, 2018 Crédit photo : Cyril Boixel
"Samâ’", 2018
Cocottes-minute, moteurs
Vue de l’exposition "Mutations", CACN, Nîmes, 2018
Crédit photo : Cyril Boixel
Marion Mounic, Open Enseigne lumineuse, néons, machine à fumée, 60 x 75 x 15 cm, 2018 Vue de l’exposition Mezzanine Sud, Les Abattoirs Musée - FRAC Occitanie Toulouse, 2019 Crédit photo : Stéphane Migot
"Open", 2018
Enseigne lumineuse, néons, machine à fumée, 60 x 75 x 15 cm
Vue de l’exposition "Mezzanine Sud", Les Abattoirs Musée - FRAC Occitanie Toulouse, 2019
Crédit photo : Stéphane Migot

Newsletter

Receive the Cube newsletter

Le Cube – independent art room
2, rue Benzerte
10000 Rabat

T. +212 6 61 18 64 41
M. info@lecube-art.com

Legal notice