Iris Marchand

Iris Marchand lives and works in Marseille. Autodidact, she has built her body of work through residencies in New York, Berlin, Paris, Bilbao, and Arles. If painting remains to be her primary practice, she nonetheless also dedicates herself to ceramics which are often displayed in large-scale installations that cut into space and question the bodies that navigating between them. Her practice is spreads across large canvases, city walls, and the pages of her notebooks that she tirelessly fills. Everything is a pretext for creation. Her paintings are often accompanied by words written on the backs of canvases and messages in the form of slogans and testimonies of her relentless reading, which are continually handled and reworked. She paints in black as if to simplify the effervescence of the thoughts that animate her.

In 2021, the LHOSTE gallery hosted her first solo exhibition: We need
transformation. That same summer, the Château de Tarascon - Centre d'Art René d'Anjou welcomed her for a three-month artistic residency. In May 2022, she joined Prysm Edition and the Mars Riso Club in Marseille for a group exhibition and the
limited edition of an artist's book combining for the first time silkscreen and risography, which was produced and hosted by the Solarium gallery during the Printemps de l'Art Contemporain (PAC) festival in Marseille.