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The artist Marina Rosselle (born 1980) lives and works in Lille, France. She initially studied art history, but switched to fine art, graduating in 2001 and completing her Master’s degree in 2003 at the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Valenciennes, France. Roselle takes part in exhibitions, workshops and residencies in France and throughout Europe. The artist, who works with drawing, sculpture, photography and video, is represented by Foundation Kai Dikhas in Berlin.
Roselle was born into the Roma and Traveller community. Her artistic work is rooted in her family history, the lifestyle and the different spaces inhabited by the Roma community, and critically examines the patronising perception of this way of life. With her art, she wants to describe their lifestyle, especially the many journeys and the successive appropriation of places. Inspired by the scrap metal dealers in her neighbourhood, she collects unusual objects and materials, reuses them in her art and appropriates them. In order to be able to collect such objects, she says, it is essential to ‘move in the vicinity of places, if not especially in places that are anything but picturesque’. She uses these objects to scrutinise ideas of vulnerability and change. Roselle locates her work in the ephemeral and ephemeral, as a precarious activity of tinkering and messing around.
The rather disreputable or simply ignored places where the Roma Traveller community resides are often places of urban development. Marina Roselle attempts to present them in terms of their significance and the role they play in the formation of an identity. In doing so, the artist often works with her own experience as well as with the immediate perception of things, rejecting the usual folkloristic depiction of Sinti and Roma
Vade Mecum, Villa Myosotis, Dunkerque
L’appat du grain, La Malterie, Lille, FR
Marina Rosselle, Collectif 12, Mantes la jolie
Marina Rosselle, FNASAT, Paris, FR
A Voir, La Madeleine , FR
2024
Unveiling Memories: Exploring Landscapes, Healing Rituals and Mutual Spaces, Foundation Kai Dikhas, Berlin, DE
BARVALO, Mucem, Marseille, FR
Bonjour les gadjé!, 59 Rivoli, Paris, FR
2nd Roma Biennale, Berlin, DE
« Frei Sein! » Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin, DE
Akathe Te Beshen. J’y suis, j’y reste, 59Rivoli, Paris, FR
« Frei Sein! » Château d’Heidelberg , DE
Terrain vague, Gallery Kai Dikhas, Berlin DE
« 3 days in Paris » Galerie Martine et Thibault de la Châtre, Paris, FR
Have a Look Into my Life !, Médiathèque Matéo Maximoff, Paris 19e , FR
Have a Look Into my Life !, Strasbourg, FR
Jeune création à la Bellevilloise, Paris, FR
Une utopie édifiante : La donation La pluied’Oiseaux, La Piscine, Musée d’art et d’industrie André Diligent de Roubaix, FR
Exposition Itinérance Tsiganes, Lyon, FR
Urbanité par défaut, Gallery RX, Paris, FR
Quintessence, Gallery RX , Paris, FR
Mulhouse 005: Obtention du prix Galerie, gallery RX, Paris , FR
The Loops, Kent , UK
