Marie Bovo
1967 (Alicante, Espagne)
Living in : entre Paris et Marseille
Working in : entre Paris et Marseille
Artist's gallery
"(...) For a long time I have photographed at night. In my first series, the Suites, the Beaches, the views of Tokyo, the night was both a territory and a working protocol. An extensive territory whose limits are neither geographical nor even material. The night has no precise edges, it can move at the whim of urban lighting, of a light that goes on or off somewhere. And, beyond the obvious particularities that distinguish a night on an urban beach in Marseille or Alicante from a night in Tokyo, it is when the darkness closes in on itself that a limit is reached. So I photographed the night and filmed it afterwards, I wasn't thinking only of its plastic qualities, of a certain "cinematrality", if we can accept this neologism, or even of its sociological dimensions. All that was self-evident. And we can say that at the beginning of the 2000s, when I made these first series, at least those of the landscape type, there was a movement to rediscover the night. The night had acquired an incredibly high fiction coefficient. But that wasn't what interested me."
Living in : entre Paris et Marseille
Working in : entre Paris et Marseille
Artist's gallery
"(...) For a long time I have photographed at night. In my first series, the Suites, the Beaches, the views of Tokyo, the night was both a territory and a working protocol. An extensive territory whose limits are neither geographical nor even material. The night has no precise edges, it can move at the whim of urban lighting, of a light that goes on or off somewhere. And, beyond the obvious particularities that distinguish a night on an urban beach in Marseille or Alicante from a night in Tokyo, it is when the darkness closes in on itself that a limit is reached. So I photographed the night and filmed it afterwards, I wasn't thinking only of its plastic qualities, of a certain "cinematrality", if we can accept this neologism, or even of its sociological dimensions. All that was self-evident. And we can say that at the beginning of the 2000s, when I made these first series, at least those of the landscape type, there was a movement to rediscover the night. The night had acquired an incredibly high fiction coefficient. But that wasn't what interested me."
Artist's exhibitions
36/36 Les artistes fêtent les 80 ans des congés payés
17/06/2016 - 10/09/2016
(Paris) Assemblée Nationale
17/06/2016 - 10/09/2016
(Paris) Assemblée Nationale
La Belle et la Bête
13/10/2012 - 27/01/2013
(Bordeaux) Institut culturel Bernard Magrez
13/10/2012 - 27/01/2013
(Bordeaux) Institut culturel Bernard Magrez
Marie Bovo – Sitio
15/12/2010 - 30/01/2011
(Paris) Maison européenne de la photographie
15/12/2010 - 30/01/2011
(Paris) Maison européenne de la photographie
Marie Bovo – Une journée
13/12/2008 - 08/03/2009
(Tours) Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré
13/12/2008 - 08/03/2009
(Tours) Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré