MARION CHARLET France, b. 1982

The French artist Marion Charlet was born in 1982. She graduated from a school of Fine Arts, Villa Arson (Nice), Chelsea College of Art and Design (London) and the Institut Supérieur des Art Appliqués (Paris). Today she lives and works in Paris.

Marion Charlet invites the spectator to dissolve in this smooth acrylic material, processed flat, like a sparkling tablet in a glass of water. No or few animals… but plants, on the other hand, in profusion, as if the human presence had deserted the canvas, leaving some witnesses suggesting its passage (objects, utensils, various materials, etc.), life suddenly becomes useless or more essential. The work of Marion Charlet is a blatant opposition between an orderly, perspective and architectural world and an exotic, chaotic, moving and luxuriant nature, very sexual, with disturbing flowers of languor and charms. Some compositions resemble those earthly paradises abandoned in haste, before the passage of a devastating cyclone…

In 2016, she won the Fondation Colas Prize, and in 2018 the renowned Art [ ] Collector Prize. That same year, she exhibited at the Patio Art Opéra. Her work is part of various collections, such as the Cat Museum (Brussels) or the Velux Foundation.

"I started from spaces, landscapes to sublimate places where I had lost loved ones dear to me. It has nothing to do with our real lives and I’m not comparing it too much. I try to make timeless spaces where everyone can find themselves, be attracted."  – Tafmag.com