PAULINE MARCELLE

Pauline Marcelle presents a series of small-scale works (10 × 25 cm), a vivid and incisive continuation of her exploration of the tension between the photographic and the painterly. Operating at the intersection of photography, painting, and digital manipulation, Marcelle distills contemporary visual culture into tightly framed compositions that are at once immediate and disquieting. These intimate works translate fragments of everyday life into bold, constructed images, where saturated color, sharp contrast, and cinematic cropping reshape perception.

Working from photographic sources, Marcelle fragments and recomposes her imagery, allowing scenes to hover between recognition and abstraction. Familiar environments are rendered unstable through radical editing: figures, objects, and spatial cues are compressed or displaced, creating a visual language that feels both grounded and estranged. The elongated format intensifies this effect, guiding the viewer’s gaze across each surface while emphasizing rhythm, interruption, and visual tension.

Together, these works form a dynamic sequence—each composition distinct, yet interconnected through a shared visual logic of fragmentation and reconstruction. Marcelle’s practice continually negotiates the conundrum of the painterly and the photographic, translating digital collage into tactile, pictorial form. Her broader oeuvre, spanning painting, sculpture, and video, reflects on human interaction and the shaping force of social and psychological environments, often engaging themes of consumption, vulnerability, and desire.