Exposition "Ouvrir sa fenêtre aux corbeaux", Marine Joncour

Esox Lucius presents the first exhibition by Marine Joncour, an artist born in the Vosges who graduated from the École nationale supérieure d'art in Dijon, where she now lives and works. She is the 2026 winner of the Propulse programme run by the Seize mille contemporary art network.

This exhibition presents a collection of paintings, video projections, sculptures and texts formalised in space.

The exhibition is based on selected experiences from her childhood in the countryside, whose narrative forms she reappropriates to open up new perspectives on our relationship with living things.

At the Quai (294M9), the exhibition moves through the adjoining spaces, where the light gradually fades, imposing a kind of twilight conducive to the narrative experience proposed by the artist. On the walls, canvases of flowery, colourful fabrics, sometimes embellished with small bones, are the medium for a double projection: that of the painting featuring a young girl and birds, batrachians or wild boar, superimposed on video animations. Animals appear intermittently, and their fleeting presence suggests a re-reading of the still images. Hybridized paintings, hybridized sculptures (whose surface is not what you'd expect), nothing in Marine Joncour's pieces is what it seems at first glance. In this work, the relationship with nature is not irreparable, the domestic is never really tamed, the wild is not who we think it is - as the selection of texts displayed in the space proves.

"My grandfather used to hang meat over the sink where we washed our fruit in the garage. Floral patterns covered the curtains, sofas, floor and table in the room just above. We moved out of the house a few months ago and there hasn't been a rabbit or a deer here for years, just flowers and a few naturalised animals... "

Commissariat Julie Morel