Marine Hugonnier
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Marine Hugonnier (born 1969) is a French and British filmmaker and
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Biography

Hugonnier was born in France, and grew up in the USA and France. She has been living in
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, since 1998. She studied philosophy, anthropology and history of art in
Paris, France Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
. She holds a PhD from the Center for Experimental and Documentary Film at the Westminster University, London UK. She also teaches at the Hochschule (MA Film), University of the Applied Sciences, Luzern, Switzerland. In 1990 she was an intern on the installation of the exhibition ''PASSAGES DE L'IMAGE'' at the
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in Paris. There she had a chance to meet and assist influential artists, filmmakers and photographers including
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,
Michael Snow Michael James Aleck Snow (December 10, 1928 – January 5, 2023) was a Canadian artist who worked in a range of media including film, installation, sculpture, photography, and music. His best-known films are ''Wavelength'' (1967) and '' La Rég ...
,
Gary Hill Gary Hill (born April 4, 1951) is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. Often viewed as one of the foundational artists of new media art, based on the single-channel work and video- and sound-based installations of the 1 ...
, Thierry Kuntzel and
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. These experiences, although brief, proved life-changing to Hugonnier – who refers to this formative time as "learning a new grammar". Hugonnier career as an artist started in 2000 with a solo exhibition at Chantal Crousel Gallery in Paris. Her work has been since shown both in film festivals, in public and private foundations and cultural institutions internationally.


Work

Hugonnier has produced twelve medium length films, for which she has received public and critical acknowledgement. These narrative films, which are a record of her travels, map the politics of vision. For example '' ARIANA'' (2003), set in
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, questions the concept of '
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': as a military stand point, a camera movement, and its origin in the pre-cinematographic entertainment of the 19th century. ''THE LAST TOUR'' (2004) is concerned with the tourist’s gaze and the limits of visibility; while ''TRAVELLING AMAZONIA'' (2006) re-enacts the building of the
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through the building of a travelling shot. In ''Apicula Enigma'' (‘The Riddle of the Bees) (2013), Hugonnier reveals film and image-making as products of the subjective experience of their creators by focusing more on the film crew at work than the bees’ activities, contrary to what the title suggests. Hugonnier is also known for her ongoing
collage Collage (, from the , "to glue" or "to stick together") is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assembly of different forms, thus creating a new whole. (Compare with pasti ...
series, ''ART FOR MODERN ARCHITECTURE'' (2004-ongoing), for which she intervenes on the front pages of newspapers, covering the original pictures with colours of the Kodak standard chart. The obliterated images still loom, recalling the viewer's own memory as well as a collective consciousness. Marine Hugonnier has been the subject of solo exhibitions, including: ''Cinema in the guts''
Le Jeu de Paume, Paris
(2022),''le cinéma à l'estomac'', Galería NoguerasBlanchard, Madrid, SP (2018) ''Apicula Enigma'',
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, Gateshead, UK (2014); ''Films Works: Marine Hugonnier'', Museum of Contemporary Arts, Seoul, South Korea (2014); ''Apparent Positions: Ariana'', The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK (2013);
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, Sweden ( 2009);
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, Florence, Italy (2009); Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (2009); Musée D’Art Moderne et Contemporain -
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, Geneva, Switzerland (2008); S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium (2007); ''Trilogy'',
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, Philadelphia (2007); Stop & Go, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (2007); Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland ( 2007); Centre for Curatorial Studies Museum,
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, New York, USA (2005);
Chisenhale Gallery Chisenhale Gallery is a non-profit contemporary art gallery based in London's East End. The gallery occupies the ground level of a former veneer factory on Chisenhale Road, situated in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, near Victoria Park, To ...
, London, UK (2003).


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External links


Official Website

MoMA, New York

MACBA Barcelona

MUDAM Luxembourg

Villa Romana, Florence

British Council

Galería NoguerasBlanchard: Marine Hugonnier
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hugonnier, Marine 1969 births Living people British contemporary artists French contemporary artists British multimedia artists French multimedia artists 21st-century British women artists 21st-century French women artists 20th-century French women Alumni of the University of Westminster