The artwork features a captivating spiral staircase, its steps and railing rendered in a striking combination of dark and light hues. The composition is dominated by the dramatic, angular lines of the staircase, creating a sense of depth and perspective. The artist's use of muted colors, ranging from warm terracotta to cool greys, adds a pensive, introspective quality to the piece. The staircase, a common architectural element, is reimagined in this contemporary painting, inviting the viewer to contemplate its symbolic and metaphorical significance, perhaps alluding to the human experience of ascent, transition, or exploration. ...
Marion Chaillou reimagines the everyday through a lens of domestic intimacy and digital culture. Her work blends painting and sculpture to explore the construction of self-narrative in an age dominated by social media and mobile photography. Chaillou paints daily gouaches based on photographs taken with her mobile phone. Each piece follows a strict protocol: same dimensions, same gouache technique, numbered and annotated with a comment. These small-format works—depicting meals, selfies, or landscapes—are then scanned and stored, transforming fleeting digital moments into tangible, autobiographical objects. Her sculptural works further this exploration, using elements of domestic furniture and clothing to question the gendered functions of objects and their underlying power structures. By juxtaposing these forms with her gouache miniatures, Chaillou creates a dialogue between the functionality of the works and new forms of intimacy. Through repetition and restraint, Chaillou's practice becomes a meditation on the self in the digital age, offering a nuanced reflection on memory, identity, and the act of seeing. ...
