Marguerite Maréchal

Marguerite Maréchal was born in 1999 in Reims. She lives and works in Marseille. She obtained her DNSEP from the École Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence in 2023.

Marguerite Maréchal’s sculptural practice brings together architectural and corporeal structures. Her forms unfold in space, questioning the relationships of dependence they maintain with one another and the tensions that run through them. Issues of vulnerability and bodily interdependence thus constitute the two main axes of her research. She chooses to make fragility a strength, asserting it in her works and within the exhibition space in order to confront us with our own vulnerabilities. The spine, a recurring motif, opens onto other concerns such as exhaustion, fracture, repair, and realignment. She uses materials that she twists, constrains, and pushes to their limits, displacing and decentering them.

Through her sculptures, Marguerite Maréchal externalizes bodily sensations linked to her own experience of disability. Although these sensations are individual, they also carry a collective dimension, allowing them to be shared or newly discovered. In this way, she offers an observation and a critical re-examination of systems of correction and