MARION VERBOOM
Marion Verboom's practice essentially consists of drawings and sculptures, both mediums working autonomously whilst enriching each other. The forms and moldings she uses are references to sculpture history (from antique figures to contemporary themes), architecture and geology (crystals, sediments, organic matters).While drawings allow the artist to develop a new formal vocabulary freely, her transpositions in sculptures challenge through their volumes their physical impact on viewers. Physical or formal confrontation of those mediums produces a tension which determines the layout of her installations. For her sculptures, the artist works through arrengements and textural juxtapositions which reveal different stratification treatments made of ceramic, traces of manipulation in her moldings or appropriations of figurative elements evoking the human body. Patterns are deployed in modules constituting elementary geometrical forms. Marion Verboom's work has entered the collections of the Frac Bretagne, Nantes' Musée des Beaux-arts and the City of Paris's FMAC (France). From 2012 to 2015, she had three solo shows: at the Rennes Biennale (France), at BIS 71 (Netherlands) and at Sainte-Croix's Abbey Museum (France) in 2015. In 2017, the Palais de Tokyo Museum has commissioned her a permanent immersive work in its new space dedicated to knowledge transfer. Marion Verboom also collaborates with the fashion house Chloé for its Parisian collections as well as for the creation of its windows in London. In 2018, Jérôme Poggi gallery in partnership with LVMH Métiers d’Art exhibited the second solo show of the artist 'Ester' to close the residency program offered to Marion Verboom at the Manifatturia Thélios in Italy.
