Fabien Marques
I982 born in Pau (FR). Fabien Marques is a visual artist. Lives and works in Turin and Cividale del Friuli, Italy.
He gained his MA Visual Arts at Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design after completing a BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography at the Glasgow School of Art.
His artworks have been shown in the context of numerous exhibitions and festivals, such as the Copenhagen Photo Festival and the Glasgow Festival for Visual Arts. He has taken part in exhibitions, among others, at Recyclart Brussels, Galerie CC in Malmö, Sweden, and Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow.
He was awarded to Prix Wicar in Rome and was selected for Salon de Montrouge in 2018. He was shortlisted for the Fabbri Foundation Prize for Contemporary Art in 2020.
Fabien Marques is a visiting lecturer at Lille University, France, and Udine University, Italy, and he’s the creator of the collective archive “Trent’anni seza Moretti”.
The photographic image is central to the practice of Fabien Marques.
His works are the result of an interest in the beauty of the ordinary,the banal aesthetics. Exploring places that do not attract attention, it operates between the undefined boundaries of the document and art, representing most often an area without human figures. This absence suggests the presence, creating a meeting point between the expressive, technical, and social forces of an image. His works often stem from historical and scientific investigations and usually explore territories marked by invisible stories. From intensive research, he reconstructs a constellation of iconographic and textual elements that illuminate and re-contextualize historical or particular events. Through spatial dispositions, the French artist puts the photographic image under pressure to question the ability of the medium to represent the world.
Marques pays meticulous attention to the smallest details, where non-event becomes the subject matter of the photograph.
