MARIE  ROUSSEL

Born in 1985, Marie Roussel is a French artist whose work has been shaped by an intimate relationship with representation, its materiality, and its capacity to convey memory. The desire to trace in a different way led her to photography, drawing with light, where the gesture is transformed into a silent presence, slowly attuned to the rhythm of time.

Trained in alternative photographic techniques, she has developed a practice based on the uniqueness of the work, conceived like a painting, and on a physical relationship with the medium. Attentive to materials, processes, and the fragility of supports, her approach affirms the ability of ancient techniques to produce meaning today, reactivating ways of seeing where slowness and matter become spaces for thought.
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Her research has led her to move away from the flow of contemporary image production and reactivate photographic archives, which she envisions as spaces of experience and poetry. The thin and fragile glass plates from the early 20th century, traversed by shadows and alterations, are transformed through recomposition and superimposition into sensitive palimpsests where time unfolds, allowing the survival of past gestures and gazes to surface in the heart of the present.