Marion Grébert

Marion Grébert is an alumna of the École normale supérieure de Lyon, from the arts department and the comparative literature section. After earning a doctorate in art history, she published her first essay in October 2022, Crossing the invisible. Figurative enigmas by Francesca Woodman and Vivian Maier published by Atelier contemporain in Strasbourg. The book was awarded the Prix André Malraux 2022. Her career is characterized by a combination of academic, theoretical and practical training. Throughout her thesis, from 2014 to 2019, she gained a number of professional experiences (lecturer in art history at Paris-IV-Sorbonne Universités from 2014 to 2017, intern-assistant in photographic conservation at the Musée d’Orsay in 2014 and at MoMA in New York in 2017). Once she has obtained her doctorate, she will continue her research with post-doctoral fellowships: the Balzan Foundation (Switzerland) in partnership with Paris-III-Sorbonne Nouvelle in 2019-2020 and the Terra Foundation for American Art (USA) in partnership with INHA (Paris) in 2021-2022. Marion Grébert is also a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris (2015). Photography remains at the heart of her approach, in the tradition of writer-photographers.

 

 

 

At Villa Medici, she wrote a second essay on the flower, considered both as a figurative motif and as a cultural object through history and archaeobotany. She traces a path from the gardens and frescoes of the Villas of the Roman Empire to post-war art in the 20th century, notably in the literary and cinematographic work of Pasolini, and focusing on the pivotal pre-Renaissance period. The flower allows him to propose a certain history of Italian and European modernity, whether artistic, political or economic, from the perspective of visual anthropology. This work is complemented by a series of photographs taken in the Villa, some of them in collaboration with Pauline Von Aesch. These images will be presented at the residents’ end-of-residency event.