BIO
After beginning her artistic journey with ballet and piano training, Marielle Gonier left her native Martinique (French West Indies) for New York to continue her professional studies, specialising in dance.
In Paris, she began to broaden her training to include other artistic disciplines such as theatre and percussion. As a dance and performance artist, Marielle also studied in parallel at the University of Paris VIII, graduating with honours in Performing Arts. The French artist continued her artistic expansion by incorporating video art and experimental film into her creative expression.
She is now dedicated to multidisciplinary artistic creations in the fields of art, literature and health areas, always striving for an unformatted writing.
Marielle's artistic influences reflect her extensive residencies and cultural experiences in Europe, the United States, South America and Australia.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Marielle's stage experience includes performances at prestigious venues such as the Folies Bergères, the Opéra Comique in Paris and the Opéra de Compiègne as a dance artist.
She has also received numerous awards for her innovative and thought-provoking video works.
Her experimental film "PERFORMING LAND" won six awards between 2021 and 2023, notably in Paris, Milan and Budapest. In October 2022, she was selected as the second winner out of 60 international contemporary artists at the AURA exhibition in London.
This recognition highlights her unique contribution to the contemporary art scene.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Marielle Gonier is a French performance and mixed media artist who describes her artistic approach as conceiving a sensitive path between the inner world and the tangible in motion.
Deeply engaged with the place of the sensitive in modern society, she also draws particular inspiration from nature, which she perceives as having a sacred dimension. The artist is also influenced by the theatre of Antonin Artaud, which seeks to exorcise deepest memories and repressed emotions by bringing them to life on stage, “presenting the concrete images of the invisible world.” (A.A.)
The artist uses different artistic media such as performing arts, video projection, experimental film and performance art.
“Through his avant-garde theatrical theory, Artaud reminded us of the importance of confronting memory and the subconscious without apprehension, whether physically or psychically, in order to achieve a cathartic effect for the liberation of the soul and spirit. This is, in fact, the very essence of contemporary art practices: like performance or video art: to reveal what we cannot or do not want to see. It is about confronting oneself, but also about what constitutes the history of humanity.” M.G.
