Marina Le Gall

Biography

(Born in 1986)

Marina Le Gall left Brittany in 2009 to join the Beaux-Arts of Paris, where she studied from 2009 to 2014 in Philippe Cognée's painting studio. She also spent time in the ceramics workshop, a technique from which she gained substantial expertise. The workshop supervisor, Claude Dumas, a former assistant to Giuseppe Penone, was also a proponent of freedom in forms, opening new creative horizons for her. She remained captivated by the animal world, with her thesis focusing on the fox, which fascinates her for its intelligence, describing it as “a very cunning animal capable of real strategies to escape the pack.”

Her ceramics are three-dimensional paintings. She is committed to the practice of ceramics because she wants to “maintain a connection with handcraft, with the object, with craftsmanship, and with the artisanal.” Her ceramics retain the traces of modeling and the sculptor's gesture, which make them feel so close to us.

Marina Le Gall creates portraits, and whether her subjects are plants or animals, she invents a story for them. The artist envisions a unique world, driven by her love of nature and an unbounded imagination.

Exhibitions selected

2024   Brussels Ceramic, Galerie du passage et Galerie Antonine Catzeflis, Bruxelles
2023   Galerie Françoise Livinec, Paris
            4ème édition du   Champ des impossibles, Perche-en-Nocé
2019   «Société», Galerie Aréa, Paris
2017   Installation d'un nuage d'oiseaux en céramique pour l'aéroport d'Orly
            «Garder le Cap», Galerie Valérie Delaunay, Paris
2016   Galerie Antonine Catzeflis, Paris
2015   «Ceci n'est qu'un arbre», Galerie Le 75, Rouen
           «Selectives memories», Griffin Gallery, London