portrait by @Silvia RocchinoMarion Tampon-Lajarriette
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Atelier Verrière Sud, Usine Kugler
Avenue de la Jonction 19
CH-1205 Geneva
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“Several major themes run through Marion Tampon-Lajarriette's work: phenomena related to vision and memory, access to the invisible and the construction of knowledge. Her videos, installations and photographic series frequently play with the porous borders between the visible, the invisible and the mental projection, as well as with the repetition of gestures and the circulation of images. Investigating both ways of seeing and ways of knowing, Marion Tampon-Lajarriette anchors her practice in their questioning and constant reinvention.”
Danaé Panchaud in SIKART, 2023
Born in Paris (France), Franco-Swiss artist Marion Tampon-Lajarriette lives and works in Geneva (Switzerland), where she graduated a Master’s degree in Arts and New Media from HEAD – Geneva. Her work is driven by several major themes: phenomena related to vision and memory, access to the invisible, and the construction of knowledge. Since 2019, she has been developing new collaborative methodologies through site-specific research and transdisciplinary dialogues. Initiated through collaborations with ecological associations, artists, scientists, and communities in Switzerland, Mexico, and Bolivia, her ongoing research project OPHELIA explores water as a living entity, a space of memory and resistance. This growing collective archive punctually materializes through immersive installations incorporating organic materials, ceramics, corrupted technologies, video, text, sound, and performance. By investigating both ways of seeing and ways of knowing, Marion anchors her practice in their continuous questioning and reinvention.
Her work has been exhibited internationally since 2006, with notable presentations at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), MAMCO (Geneva), the Swiss Institute (New York), MOCA (Toronto), the Kyotographie festival (Kyoto), and the Simón I. Patiño Foundation (La Paz). Since 2004, she has received numerous grants and residencies, including a Swiss Federal Art Grant (2009), an artist residency in New York awarded by the State of Geneva (2013), as well as residencies at the Swiss Institute in Rome (2017), KIOSKO in Santa Cruz (2023), and Materia Gris in La Paz (2024). Her work is part of various public collections.
The artist’s first monograph «Paramnesia» was edited in 2013 by SAV-Fondation Ahead in Geneva (70p, fr/en, texts of Christophe Kihm and Elie During, Marie Villemin and Marie-Léa Zwahlen). Her second monograph, Echos, was published in 2020 by Casa Grande (331 pages, English/French/Spanish/Italian, texts by Cristóbal Barria, Mark Lewis, Beau Rhee, Lucille Ulrich, Valeria Venditti).