Artist and filmmaker Marie-Cerise works and lives between Paris and New York. After her studies at Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, MC joined Essais, the Choreography Research program at Centre National de Danse Contemporaine.
From the equation image + movement, she focused on filmmaking. MC seeks a convergence between the movement and her plastic work. She directed an experimental animated documentary short film “Motu Proprio”, produced by Le Groupe de Recherches et d’Essais Cinématographiques. Influenced by the film Motu Proprio, her pictorial work concentrates on the practice of ink drawing on paper. Thereby she launched a series of large formats.
Her work has been shown at la Fondation Cartier and Centre Pompidou in Paris. In addition to her plastic work, MC is working on fiction and documentaries film projects.
"Drawing, painting and filming are mediums allowing me to digest what I observe, to interfere between reality and perception in an evolving relationship. The nature of reality is thus slightly altered and this shift helps me to detect the elusive in an articulation of the visible and the invisible. Through this manipulation I incorporate a movement into this interval _ this external proprioception moves the viewer and allows new content to be seen. This process involves experimentation. The transformation stretches like elastic dough. I build a permeable surface by flattening fragmented spaces."
Marie-Cerise enjoys playing Bach on piano.