"Creating a book is similar to creating a film. The film, as a
medium, synthesizes all my other practices into a single visual experience
continues. In the same way, the book unfolds like a film, offering a
fragmented but coherent experience, where each page turns like a
new sequence." Marilou Poncin Bodies of Work is the first work dedicated
to the work of French visual artist Marilou Poncin, both
videographer, photographer, painter and ceramist. He offers a retrospective of
more than eight years of artistic production, where the artist exhibits his research
on the representation and allegory of the female body, the artificiality of
images or the inorganic body as a vector of sentimentality in the era of
digital. Marilou Poncin also offers us a reading of the relationships between
humans and non-anthropomorphic technological objects in a speculative narrative,
subject of his latest video installation Liquid Love is Full of Ghosts, presented
in Arles during the Rencontres de la Photographie in the selection for the Prize
Discovery 2024 Louis Roederer Foundation. The book also reveals part of the
the artist's creative process: from collecting images to sketches and storytelling-
boards from his personal archives. Without being exhaustive, Bodies of Work
wishes to cover all the structuring themes of the practice of
Marilou Poncin to question us on these social issues, enriched by the
critical contributions from curators Flora Fettah and Élora Weill-Engerer.
