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BIOGRAPHY
Marie B. Cros is a French artist whose practice lies at the intersection of set design, contemporary installation, and film. Her work engages the body, memory, and perception within spaces conceived as experiences—narrative architectures in which the viewer is physically involved.
In the late 1990s, she entered the world of production photography, working closely with studios. There, she developed an understanding of the image as a construction—from what is visible to what lies outside the frame—that would gradually move beyond the frame to become space.
It is in this passage that his practice takes shape: the image becomes a device, the device becomes scenography, and scenography becomes language.
Beginning in 2001, several pivotal encounters established his work within an international artistic network: the Milanese curator and architect Gherardo Frassa, with whom he collaborated for over a decade (2001–2014); and Peter de Raaf, director of the VIP’s Gallery in Rotterdam, who acquired his work for the gallery’s collection. These perspectives represent the first institutional endorsements of a practice that defies classification.
In 1998, her encounter with Raffaele—a producer and committed intellectual deeply rooted in the networks of European political thought—opened up new horizons. This circle, at the intersection of philosophy, sociology, and documentary filmmaking, had a lasting impact on her relationship to the body, history, and forms of resistance.
In 2008, his collaboration with Olivier Massart and La Mode en Images opened up a field for large-scale experimentation—international productions, ephemeral architectural installations for haute couture—that fueled his creative exploration without ever defining it.
Over time, her spatial thinking has expanded into film, which she sees as a natural extension of her work. Her recent projects— *Le Rêve de Nathalie* (supported by the CNC) and *Sì Viaggiare* —explore the relationships between personal memory, political history, and the transformation of the body. At the same time, she is developing *Corpi-archivio*, a hybrid installation that treats the body as a site of resistance and collective memory.
Born in 1971 in Pau. Lives and works in Paris.