Basse saison combines photographs taken by the artist mainly during the winter of 2020, while staying in her native region, La Grande Motte in southern France.
If the subject is obvious, Marine Peixoto has decided to take its side by placing classical photographic issues at stake, in contrast to the poor images that make up most of her books. The images and their articulation are based on questions of light, winter light in the South being "more flattering" and more enveloping than the blazing summer sun. The futuristic architecture and stores signs of this new city, La Grande Motte, conjure up an otherworldly experience, becoming once again the setting for ordinary atmospheric phenomena (mist, twilight). The game doesn't escape certain stereotypes, with deliberately "touristy" framing interfering with the heritage of objective photography and conceptual art, as if to recapture a first taste of the country and its memory in images. The search for grace in the déjà-vu beckons in the reflection of a mirror or on a clothing store window—"Re Belle".
Limited edition of 100 copies.
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Salle de bains, Lyon, in 2022.
Marine Peixoto (born 1984 in Montpellier, France) graduated from the National School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg (HEAR).
Marine Peixoto is an artist who looks at life as a genre scene. She captures the habits and rituals of the people around her, familiar or folkloric scenes, assuming the subjectivity of her position. Using mainly photography, video and editing to document one's immediate surroundings, the resulting series of images are most often made visible in self-published publications.
She has signed monographic exhibitions in
Glassbox, Paris, Glassbox Sud, Montpellier, Le BAL, Paris, and has also taken part in group exhibitions including
Futur, ancien, fugitif at the
Palais de Tokyo in 2019. She taught at the Fine Arts of Marseille at the European School of Image of Angoulême in 2020-2021. Along with these activities, she works in a duo with artist and photographer Clara Prioux under the name Prioux & Peixoto.
