ENTRY DESCRIPTION
In this self-portrait taken at the Centre National de la Danse in Pantin, just outside Paris, the artist becomes both structure and movement. Clad in a long, dark dress, she ascends a brutalist staircase, her figure absorbed into the concrete labyrinth of intersecting planes and sharp geometries. The silence of the architecture becomes the stage for a suspended choreography.

The composition draws its strength from contrast: the organic presence of the body against the rigidity of concrete; the fluidity of motion imagined within a space designed for function and permanence. As the figure walks upward in solitude, her back turned to us, she evokes both distance and intimacy — an echo of introspection.

This image speaks of elevation, isolation, and the silent resilience of the feminine body navigating a monumental world. It is a reflection on identity within space — a dialogue between the grace of the ephemeral and the austerity of the built environment.

AUTHOR
Marlène Delcambre
Visual Artist & Photographer

Marlène Delcambre is a French visual artist and photographer whose work explores the complexity of human identity, our relationship to the environment, and shifting perceptions of beauty. Drawing from both her background in neuropsychology and her training at the renowned Harcourt studios, she crafts images that are emotionally precise and visually poetic.

Her practice often blends digital and analog techniques, ranging from large-format chamber photography to experimental self-portraiture. Delcambre’s body of work is structured in powerful series such as Beauty Disorder, Shape, La Danse, or La Baigneuse, each offering a distinct yet interconnected reflection on vulnerability, absence, autonomy, and the feminine body as both presence and metaphor.

She frequently uses her own body as medium and subject, staging solitary figures in architectural or natural settings that oscillate between dream and disquiet. With an acute sense of mise en scène, she transforms each frame into a quiet narrative where introspection, resistance, and transformation coexist.

Her photographs have been exhibited internationally – from Paris, Tokyo and Milan to New York and London – in institutions and fairs such as Art Capital at the Grand Palais, the Salon d’Automne, the National Art Center Tokyo, the London Art Fair, and FIAC off-sites. She is the recipient of awards from ADAGP and Objectif Femmes.

In parallel with her fine art work, Marlène Delcambre collaborates with fashion houses, architects and magazines, always weaving an emotional language of light and form into her commissioned work. Her universe remains singular, poised between aesthetic precision and philosophical depth.

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