Marion Balac's work explores the impulses and interactions between feelings and technology, approaching them through a variety of media as a means to investigate the struggles and bonds between individual and mass behaviours. A globalized online tourist, she travels dynamic playgrounds and encounters new landscapes and fictionalized personas that she can study and explore, within and outside the screen. Gathering structures such as touristic sites, theme parks, internet forums, user-generated content websites interest her as they intend to duplicate traditional community interactions. From then, a gap - between a copy and its original, between what is perceived online from people or places and their actual qualities - becomes the starting point of her investigation and the core of her works, where behind a deadpan humour often rises melancholy.
Her work has been included in exhibitions and screenings at: Thaddaeus Ropac gallery (Paris Pantin) for Jeune Création, Fabra i Coats - Centre d'Art Contemporani (Barcelona), le Confort Moderne (Poitiers), le Bel Ordinaire (Pau), LOOP Barcelona, Cankarjev Dom (Ljubljana), Annka Kultys Gallery (London), Galerie Manqué (New York), Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), Enclave Projects (London), Paradise Works (Manchester), Bandits-Mages (Bourges), Espace des Blancs-Manteaux (Paris), l’Abbaye (Annecy-le-Vieux), Galerie Neuf (Nancy), Hectoliter Gallery (Brussels), Musée Saint-Raymond (Toulouse)... She has had the opportunity to develop her work in residencies like Espositivo and Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, Salón Bellefour in Buenos Aires or Hangar in Barcelona.
"Marion Balac uses unusual data, situations or objects as a base to produce fictions that reveal the landscapes and horizons of a globalised world. Her artworks, tender and dark at the same time, show how stories generated by the connected and ultra-contemporary culture fall within physical or online sites."
Caroline Delieutraz and Stephanie Vidal, Making Contact.
(fr) "Marion Balac transforme des étonnements provoqués par des données, des situations ou des objets en dispositifs fictionnels qui révèlent les paysages et horizons d'un monde globalisé. Ses pièces, à la fois tendres et grinçantes, montrent comment des récits issus de la culture ultra-contemporaine et connectée s'inscrivent dans des lieux physiques ou en ligne. "
Caroline Delieutraz et Stephanie Vidal pour l'exposition Making Contact.
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SOLO SHOWS
2022 Go go go, Cultural Rizoma, Celrà, ES
2020 Les futurs, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, FR
2017 Alejandro, Galerie WTA, Barcelona, ES
2015 Pleine saison, Galerie Le Toutou Chic, Metz, FR
2013 Décantation, JHB Fondation Royale, Bruxelles, BE
2010 Animal Catastrophe, Kiosque Images, Paris, FR
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS & EVENTS
2024
(upcoming) Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bordeaux, Contrebande competition, screening, Bordeaux, FR
(upcoming) Mesh Festival, Festival of Art and Technology organised by Haus der Elektronischen Künste (HEK), iart and Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel (FHNW), screening, Basel, CH
(upcoming) 43rd Uppsala Short Film Festival, screening, Unraveling A.I.program curated by Steph Maj Swanson (Supercomposite), SE
(upcoming) Let Us Reflect film festival, screening, Chapelle Saint-Jacques centre d'art contemporain, Saint-Gaudens, FR
How to How to, group exhibition curated by Elliott Burns & Pita Arreola (Offsite Project), Sluice [Vernacular], Colchester, UK
DSRA, screening and talk, La Jetée, Clermont-Ferrand, FR
Prompt Battle, event curated by Bani Brusadin, CCCB, Barcelona, ES
2023
Quattro artist* a confronto con l'intelligenza artificiale, group show curated by Lorenzo Guasti and Carolina Ciuti, Internet Festival 2023, Logge dei Banchi, Pisa, IT
Aplec Prompt, event curated by Carlos Carbonell, Sala Taro, Barcelona, ES
Une histoire du flou dans la photographie, group show, Photo Elysée, Lausanne, CH
Escape, group show, Square Edge Gallery, Palmerston North, CK ; Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, ES ; Dom14, Achgabat, TM ; Alliances françaises, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Kolkata, Chandigarh, Chennai, Goa, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Karikal, Mahe, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pondichéry, Pune, Trivandrum, Baroda, Cochin, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Indore, Madurai, Ranchi, Trichy, IN ; Alliance française, Katmandou, NP ; Colombo, Kandy, Matara, Jaffna, LK ; Alliances françaises, Chittagong, Dhaka, BD ; Alliances françaises, Quito, Loja, EC ; Institut français du Togo, Lomé, TG ; Aliança Francesa, Belo Horizonte, BR
2022
indret.xyz, group show, Cultural Rizoma, Celrà, ES
Les yeux ouverts, group show, Gwinzegal, Guingamp, FR
Scroll Bomb, event curated by Bani Brusadin, DONE6, Foto Colectania, Barcelona, ES
Escape, group show, Institut français, Cotonou, BJ ; Alianza Francesa, Quito, EC ; Alliances françaises, Santo Domingo, Santiago, DO ; Institut français, Tripoli, LB ; Institut français, Ankara, TR ; Institut français, Sofia, BG ; Institut Français, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, BF ; Institut Français, Tlemcen, DZ ; Alliance Française, Fushë Kosovë, Peja, Pristina, Vushtrri, Kosovo ; Institut français, Bukavu, CG ; Dokk1, Aarhus, DK ; Cyens, Nicosie, CY ; Alliance française, Manille, PH ; Instituts français, Douala, Yaoundé, CM ; Alliances françaises, Bydgoszcz, Gdansk, Katowice, Lodz, Lublin, Szczecin, Torun, Wroclaw, PL ; Alliance française Bruxelles-Europe, Bruxelles, BE
2021
Biennale Nova, group show, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, FR
Dérails, group show curated by Damien Beyrouthy, Alice Lenay & Kevin Niemeskern, The Wrong Biennale, WW
La troballa d’un artefacte arqueològic renderitzat, group show curated by Daniel Moreno Roldan, MAC - Mataró Art Contemporani, Mataró, ES
Blacksreen_Issues_Sleeping_Displays, group show curated by Carin Klonowski, Glassbox, Paris, FR
IA Fictions, online group show curated by Alexandre Gefen for Maison de la recherche de l’Université de Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, FR
Harmonie, group show, In extenso gallery, Clermont-Ferrand, FR
Valentine’s Card, online exhibition curated by Elliott Burns & Pita Arreola, Offsite project, WW
Book Brutality, Syndicat Potentiel, Strasbourg, FR
Escape, group show curated by Antonin Founeau & Eric Boulo, Alliance Française, Paris, FR ; Institut français, Abidjan, CI ; Instituts français, Alger, Annaba, Constantine, Oran, Tlemcen, DZ ; Instituts français, Marrakech, Fès, Safi, Casablanca, Oujda, MA ; İnstitut français, Izmir, TR ; Institut français, Le Caire, EG ; Alliance française, Lima, PE
2020
Technical bodies - Bodies Technically, group show curated by Sara Løvschall Grøntved, Anne Møller Christensen & Katrine Sofie Jepsen, Kvindemuseet, Aarhus, DK
Twitch sessions, online event curated by Jordi Ferreiro for La Capella, Barcelona, ES
Melting Point, group show curated by Jean-Jacques Gay, Le Bel Ordinaire, Pau, FR
La mina de sal – La sed animal, group show curated by Margot Cuevas, Gisela Chillida, Daniel Moreno, Mònica Planes & Àlex Palacín, FASE + Dràcul·la, Art Nou, Barcelona, ES
Interstice, group show curated by Bérénce Serra, Territoires Pionniers, Maison de l’architecture Normandie, Caen, FR
Perfect users, group show curated by Ian Webb, Anno Domini Gallery, San Jose, California, US
Going Away.tv - The Retreat, group show curated by Marc Blazel & Alexander Harding, Arebyte Gallery, London, UK
Zajcja Luknja (Rabbit Hole), group show curated by Jasna Jernejšek & Jan Babnik, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, SI
Non player character, screening, curated by Pablo M. Garrido, Facultad de Bellas Artes de la UPV/EHU, ES
2019
Autonomie Zéro, group show curated by Dominique Moulon & Gilles Alvarez, Biennale Némo, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR
Open Studios, group show, GlogauAIR Open Studios project space, Berlin, DE.
Making the city, group show, Loop Discover award, Convent de Sant Agustí, Barcelona, ES
Too beautiful to be real, group show curated by Elliott Burns, Pita Arreola & Wade Wallerstein, The Wrong Biennale, WW
This way up, group show curated by Sidney Smith & Jim Bicknell-Knight, The Wrong Biennale, WW
Going away.tv, group show curated by Marc Blazel & Alexander Harding, The Wrong Biennale, WW
Perfect users, group show curated by Ian Webb, The Wrong Biennale, WW
LOOP Discover Award, group show, Antiga Fàbrica Estrella Damm, Barcelona, ES
Vingt-et-une, group show curated by Mathieu Tremblin, galerie art & essai - Université Rennes 2, FR
Portrait of Zuck, group show curated by George Metesky, Galerie Manqué, New York, US
Mission To Touch The Sun: Sun Burnt, group show curated by K.P.Culver & William Noel Clarke, Paradise Works, Manchester, UK
Off Site Project Google Maps Residency, online residency, WW
Residence in M.A.M : Montluçon Art Mobile, group show curated by Bérénice Serra, Fonds d’art moderne et contemporain de Montluçon, FR
Festival Interstice, group show curated by Bérénice Serra, Maison de l’architecture Normandie, Caen, FR
2018
Produir, produir, produï(t), group show curated by Xavier Acarín & Carolina Ciuti, Reial Cercle Artístic, LOOP Festival, Barcelona, ES
Inside Intel, group show curated by Elliott Burns, India Murphy & Jake Charles Rees, St James Hatcham, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Terms and Conditions May Apply, group show curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight, Annka Kultys Gallery, London, UK
Young dealers event at Sotheby's, group show, Sotheby’s, Paris, FR
Mission To Touch The Sun, group show curated by K.P.Culver & William Noel Clarke, Enclave, London, UK
No es lo que aparece, group show curated by Virginia Torrente, Xavier Acarín Wieland & Pedro Torres, Fabra i Coats - Centre d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, ES
Total Contest TV, screening, festival OVNi, La station, Nice, FR
Résidence, online show curated by Bérénice Serra, WW
Inshort, film festival, Lagos, NG
Ticket à conserver ou à disséminer, group show curated by Mathieu Tremblin, Le Syndicat Potentiel, Strasbourg, FR
Far away treasure, group show curated by Quim Packard, Espai Nyam nyam, Barcelona, ES
Gimmick 2, group show curated by Antoni Hervás, Tienda Derecha, Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona, ES
Les prix Vitrine-65 de Jeune Création 2017, group show, Vitrine-65, Paris, FR
Photo18, group show, Halle 622, Zurich-Oerlikon, CH
DIS[ ] : ARBITRATION Pavilion, online exhibition, The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale, WW
2017
Jeune Création 67, group show, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, FR
White Screen 3, online exhibition curated by Carine Klonowski, Kévin Cadinot & Julien Toulze, Jeune Création, WW
Making contact, online exhibition curated by Caroline Delieutraz & Stéphanie Vidal, Ko Projects, WW
Festival Saison Video, Tourismes, online screening curated by Mo Gourmelon, Saison Video #41, WW
Un mundo ideal, group show curated by Julia Morandeira, Jesus Alcaide & Antoni Hervas, Fabra i Coats - Centre d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, ES
UnderLOOP, group show curated by Amanda Caminals, Cine Avenida de la Luz, LOOP, Barcelona, ES
Crowd workers, Unsterblichkeit und Post-Fotografie, group show, 21es Journées photographiques de Bienne, Galerie Le Grenier, Bienne, CH
Под земја полесно се дише 5, group show, Kula, Skopje, MK
Quand Denis rencontre Philippe, group show, Chaideny, Clamart, FR
Le Merveilleux, group show, Abbaye Royale du Montcel, Pontpoint, FR
Paper Tigers Collection & Co, group show curated by Mathieu Tremblin, Syndicat Potentiel, Strasbourg, FR
Paratext 14, talk and screening, Hangar, Barcelona, ES
2016
Variation, group show curated by Dominique Moulon, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR
Fictions Réelles, group show, Le 100 ecs, Paris, FR
Festival Imagine, talk & performance, invitation by Frédéric Martel for Soft Power, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Open, group show curated by Manon Klein & BLBC, Galerie T2, Paris, FR
10x10, group show, Ourcq Blanc, Paris, FR
5th Khorshid Film Festival, screening, Téhéran, IR
Écran Libre, screening, Moon, Foff Angoulême, FR
2015
Variation, group show curated by Dominique Moulon, Espace des Blancs-Manteaux, Paris, FR
Carnets d'été, group show, Galerie Louise, Le Pré Saint Gervais, FR
La fin des cartes ?, group show curated by Isabelle Arvers, Curry Vavart, Paris, FR
Ravages, group show curated by Diamètre, Point Éphémère, Paris, FR
Promenons-nous..., group show curated by Caroline Delieutraz & Géraldine Miquelot, Abbaye d'Annecy-le-Vieux, FR
Racines, group show, Galerie Mathilde C, Paris, FR
2014
Entre les arbres, group show, Galerie Entre, Paris, FR
Éditons, group show, Collectif Blanc - Nomad, Montréal, CA
6 weekends d'art contemporain, group show, Galerie Neuf, Nancy, FR
Il y a loin et cependant, group show, Avant-Travaux, Paris, FR
2013
Tootem, group show, Société Sauvage/Galerie Lazer Quest, Paris, FR
Revival, group show, Hectoliter gallery, Bruxelles, BE
Revival Pavilion, group show, Grad Sofiya, Sofia, BG
Beware, group show, Workshop, Paris, FR
Jardins Synthétiques Hors les Murs, group show, La Bellone, Bruxelles, BE
2012
Orage Titan Fata Morgosa, group show, H2, Paris, FR
Jardins synthétiques, group show, Musée Saint-Raymond,Toulouse, FR
Les invités des Atelier Boisson, group show curated by John Deneuve, Marseille, FR
Which Witch, group show, Le Cagibi, Lille, FR
Treize Étranges, group show curated by Céline Poulin, Hors les Murs du Parc Saint Léger, Nevers, FR
Collection classique, group show, Le Pied de Biche, Paris, FR
2009-2011
Láncszemek, group show, L'Hybride, Lille, FR
Reputation, group show, Mother Drucker, Berlin, DE
Bandits-Mages, film festival, Bourges, FR
Jusqu'ici tout va bien, group show, Forum de l’Image - Espace Croix-Baragnon, Toulouse, FR
EDUCATION
DSRA, Diplôme Supérieur de Recherche en Art, École supérieure d'art de Clermont Métropole, FR, 2024
Master 2 (art) with honors, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, FR, 2015
DNAP (art), ENSBA Lyon, FR, 2008
TEACHING
Beaux-Arts de Marseille - INSEAMM (Institut national supérieur d'enseignement artistique Marseille-Méditerranée), FR, since 2021
RESEARCH
Coopérative de recherche, ESACM Clermont-Ferrand, FR, 2019-2023
Laboratoire Modulaire, ESAM Caen/Cherbourg, FR, 2020-2022
PRIZES, RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS
Épistémologies depuis les arts, Aix-Marseille Université, residency, Marseille, July 2023
Syndicat Potentiel, research grant and residency, Strasbourg, FR, 2021
Centre Photographique de Rouen Normandie, online residency, Discord, 2021
ESAM art school, research grant and residency, Caen, FR, 2020-2021
Le Confort Moderne, residency and grant, Poitiers, FR, 2020
ESACM art school, research grant, Clermont-Ferrand, FR, 2019-2022
Offsiteproject.org, online residency, IN, 2019
Loop Discover award, shortlisted, Barcelona, ES, 2019
Espositivo 7B, residency, Madrid, ES, 2018
Ex Asilo Filangieri, residency exchange with Hangar Barcelona, residency and grant, Napoli, IT, 2018
Premi Miquel Casablancas, Sant Andreu Contemporani prize, shortlisted, Barcelona, ES, 2018
Hangar, Centro de Producción e Investigación de Artes Visuales residency and grant, Barcelona, ES, 2018
Hangar, Hangar / Institut Français de Barcelona / Casa de Velázquez residency and grant, Barcelona, ES, 2017
Can Serrat residency and full grant, El Bruc, ES, 2017
Jeune Création / Vitrine-65 prize, winner, Paris, FR, 2017
Premi Miquel Casablancas, Sant Andreu Contemporani prize, shortlisted, Barcelona, ES, 2017
WT Artspace, residency, Barcelona, ES, 2017
Salon Bellefour, residency, Buenos Aires, AR, 2016
Casa de Velázquez, residency and grant, Madrid, ES, 2015
Villa Belleville residency, Paris, FR, 2015
Présence Barrée, residency, Grenoble, FR, 2013
GOM / Musée d'Art de Toulon, residency, Toulon, FR, 2013
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TALKS
AI in the arts: ethical considerations, panel discussion with Carlos Carbonell, Elena Alekseeva, Bani Brusadin and Merlina Rañi, Loop Festival, Barcelona, ES, November 21th, 2023
Délégations, talk with Damien Beyrouty, Les milieux associés, Turbulence - Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, April 7th, 2023
Au-delà du doomscrolling, talk and panel discussion with Laurence Allard & Alexandre Léchenet, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, February 24th, 2022
Data doubles - Marion, symposium with Marie Lechner and Bérénice Serra, Laboratoire Modulaire, ésam Caen-Cherbourg, October 13th, 2021
Bain de pixels, talk, with Pauline Chasseray-Peraldi, Syndicat Potentiel, Strasbourg, September 25th, 2021
Floues. La fiction du territoire à l'ère de Google, Journées de l'Architecture, Strasbourg, September 25th, 2021
Data & IA : le vrai, le faux, le flou, panel discussion with Denis Escudier, Hervé Halbout & François Rioult, le Dôme, Caen, April 21th, 2021
Écoute l'artiste, RRouen - Réseau arts visuels Rouen métropole, April 15th, 2021
Que font les images de l'IA, symposium, MISHA de l’Université de Strasbourg, April 15th, 2021
Pogovor z Marion Balac ob razstavi Zajčja luknja with Marion Balac, panel discussion with Dr. Jože Guna & Jan Babnik, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, SI, February 27th, 2020
Paratext 35 with Lucía Egaña Rojas, Francisco Navarrete Sitja, Martín Vitaliti, Bartomeu Sastre, Laura Arensburg, Hangar.org, Barcelona, ES, April 17th 2019
Web Cinematics, Loop Studies, panel discussion with Nelson Crespo, Zena Khan, Sylwia Serafinowicz, Miriam Cacho & Elisenda Muns moderated by Andrew Colquhoun & Maria Escobedo, Loop Festival, Barcelona, ES, November 20th, 2018
Digital Codes— The impact of digital technologies in the production of video art, Loop Studies, panel discussion with Pau Waelder, Nelson Crespo, Daniela Arriado & Serafín Álvarez moderated by Paula Nishijima, Loop Festival, Barcelona, ES, November 21th, 2018
Paratext 14 with Florian Freier, Michael J. Lyons, Megan Michalak, Hangar.org, Barcelona, ES, January 18th, 2017
Soft Power, France culture, radio show moderated by Frederic Martel with Albertine Meunier, Maxime Chanson, Thomas Cheneseau, Béatrice Lartigue, Stéphanie Vidal, Fabrice Starzinskas, Festival Imagine, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, June 5th, 2016
TELEVISION
Gafam art, Aldo Lee, Tracks, Arte, 06.10.2022
Un mundo como pantalla: platonismo digital, Ingrid Guardiola, Víctor Diago, Soy camera, CCCB Barcelona, 12.13.2019
Im künstlichen Soziotop – Disneylands prägender Einfluss, Igor Basic,Kulturplatz, SRF 1, 05.03.2017
RADIO
Quartier Libre, Radio Pulsar (10.16.2020)
900 secondes, Radio Pulsar (10.19.2020)
Internet, Green Text Stories, Dublab.es (02.14.2017)
Soft Power, France Culture (06.05.2016) - backup audio
TEXTS AND INTERVIEWS
Toutes les forces de l'attraction - Carin Klonowski - 2020
Mark, le bleu - entretien avec Marion Balac - Bérénice Serra - Blob n°0 - 2020 - pdf
5X5 Annka Kultys Gallery - Dateagle - 2018 - pdf
Making Contact - Caroline Delieutraz & Stéphanie Vidal - 2017 - pdf
Für Google sind Götter auch nur Menschen - Igor Basic - SRF - 2017 - pdf
Villa Belleville - Géraldine Miquelot - Portraits - 2016 - pdf
Marion Balac - Géraldine Miquelot - Portraits - 2016 - pdf
Marion Balac on jungle-explorations, suggestive drawings and island dreams - Amber Hsu - Tiny Pencil - 2013 - pdf
PUBLICATIONS FEATURING MY WORK
Marion, a research residency, with Carlos Carbonell, Aude Launay, Alexandre Pauchet, François Rioult, Luc Brou, éditions du Laboratoire Modulaire, ésam Caen/Cherbourg, 2022
La Belle Revue, portfolio with la coopérative de recherche de l'ÉSACM, In extenso, 2021
BLOB n°0, Unité de Recherche Numérique en Art et Design de l’Esad Saint-Étienne / Ensba Lyon, 2020
Tickets à conserver ou à disséminer, Jean-Claude Luttmann, Mathieu Tremblin, Syndicat Potentiel, 2018
isthisit? issue 5, Bob Bicknell-Knight, isthisit?, London, 2018
L'art au-delà du digital, Dominique Moulon, Nouvelles Éditions Scala, Paris, 2018
Far Away Treasure, Parasitio, Barcelona, 2018
El común y el ningún, Hangar, Barcelona, 2018
Iceview 03, nList, Skagaströnd, Iceland, 2018
Paratext 2, Hangar, Barcelona, 2018
Résidence, publié par Bérénice Serra, Lyon, 2018
Entre Lieux communs et merveilles, Clara Neumann, HEAR, Strasbourg, 2016
The Many faces of Camouflage, Jan Babnik, Membrana, 2016
Identity, Florian Alexander Schmidt, Agenda Design 3, AGD, 2016
Data Iconoclast, Paul Wombell, British Journal of Photography, December issue, 2015
Cabinet of curiosities, IDPURE 38, 2015
Dadabot. Essay about the hybridization of cultural forms (music, visual arts, literature) produced by digital technologies, Nicolas Nova et Joël Vacheron, Éditions Idpure, 2015
Early Edition, Bill Kartalopoulos, Nat. Brut, New York, 2015
Girls Draw it Better, Monique Todd, Twin Magazine 12, 2015
It's Nice That Annual 2013, Company of Parrots, London, 2013
Revival, Blood Becomes Water #8, Brussels, 2013
Headache, Éditions du Livre, Strasbourg, 2011
Massive, Chili Com Carne / Hülülülü, Lisboa, 2010
PRESS AND POSTS
NOVA XX : dramaturgie d’une métamorphose en cours, Véronique Godé, Arts Hebdo Médias, 2022 - pdf
“Escape, voyage au cœur des cultures numériques”, l’expo expliquée en trois œuvres - Marion Michel - Télérama - 2021 - pdf
De nuevo lo viejo y lo nuevo de nuevo, Daniel Pitarch - Imágenes, un dominio público - 2020 - pdf
Triple soirée au Confort moderne - Laurent Favreuille - La Nouvelle République - 2020 - pdf
Anticipation - Anna Maisonneuve - Junkpage - 2020
Avatares y mascaras - María Rojas - Ssstendhal - 2019 - pdf
Videoarte - Obras que nacen de la tecnología, Vicky Navarro & Andrea Ruiz, Lamono - 2019
Cómo desaparecer del mapa: un caso práctico de disidencia online - Sergio Luna Lozano, Yasmina Morán Conesa - 2018 - pdf
El cine Avenida de la Luz reabre para arte, Teresa Sesé, La Vanguardia, 05.03.2017
Les inquiétantes miscellanées des Journées de Bienne - Caroline Stevan - Le temps - 2017 - pdf
Underloop: videoarte en el subsuelo de Barcelona - Jorge Mauro de Pedro - Culturaca - 2017 - pdf
DADABOT. The role of algorithms in cultural production - Regine Debatty - We-make-money-not-art - 2016 - pdf
Un état de la création numérique - Frédéric Martel - France Culture - 2016 - pdf
The Many Faces of Camouflage - Jan Babnik - Membrana - 2016
Panorama of drawing in 2015 by Twin Magazine 12 - 2015
The 'Anonymous Gods' Of GSV - Beckett Mufson - The Creators Project - 2014 - pdf
The Anonymous Gods Of GSV - John Brownlee - Fast Company / Co.Design - 2014 - pdf
Has facial recognition paranoia gotten stupid? - Greg Stevens - The Daily Dot - 2014 - pdf
Marion Balac - Renaud Monfourny - Les Inrocks - 2014 - pdf
The faces of monuments and statues blurred-out by Google Street View - Maisie Skidmore - It's Nice That - 2014 - pdf
Le visage apparaît dans une troublante nudité - Pierre Ménard - Liminaire - 2014 - pdf
Aujourd’hui est le jour où tu rejoins tes semblables - Mikaël Demets - L'accoudoir - 2014 - pdf
The Faceless Gods Of Google Street View - Robbie Gonzalez - io9 - 2014 - pdf
La poésie mystérieuse du dessin contemporain - Julien Verhaeghe - Contemporanéité - 2014 - pdf
Anonymous gods - Spacelab - 2014
Anonymous Gods, i volti delle statue offuscate su Google StreetView - Wired -2014 - pdf
Όλοι είμαστε ίσοι μπροστά στη google - George Tsaknis - Dimar - 2014 - pdf
Stunningly detailed pencil drawings from the prolific Marion Balac - James Cartwright - It's Nice That - 2013 - pdf
Il y a loin et cependant - Smaranda Olcese - Toute la culture - 2013 - pdf
Marion Balac’s Apparitional Void Drawings - Ryan de la Hoz - Beautiful Decay -2013
Marion Balac - Victoria Roussel - Beware - 2013 - pdf
Utopies en miniatures, Benjamin Bottemer, Zut! #09, 2014
Animal Catastrophe, Junko Shibuya, Illustration Japan, 2010
Animal Catastrophe, Maxime Gueugneau, Kiblind, April issue, 2010
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BOOKS
Aujourd'hui est le jour où tu rejoins tes semblables, Super-Loto Éditions, Concots, 2014
Étudiant, avec Adrien Fregosi, Présence, Grenoble, 2013
Animal catastrophe, avec Jérémy Naklé, 2010
WORKSHOPS
AI AI AI, ISBA - Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts de Besançon, Besançon, FR, 2023
Fake News, collège Albert Camus - Grâces, Gwinzegal art center, Guingamp, FR, 2023
L'image mise en jeu, GwinZegal art center, Guingamp, FR, 2022
NLG, workshop w/ Carlos Carbonell, ésam Caen-Cherbourg, FR, 2021
Marion et Marion, workshop w/ Carlos Carbonell, Le Dôme, Caen, FR, 2021
Discord, online research group, Centre Photographique de Rouen, 2021
Memes memes memes, workshop, collège Dulcie September - Arcueil, Le Lavoir Numérique art center, Gentilly, FR, 2021
How to make a tutorial, workshop, ESACM École supérieure d'art de Clermont Métropole, Clermont-Ferrand, FR, 2021
L'âge de l'incertitude, workshop, collège Charles Brochen - Pontrieux, GwinZegal art center, Guingamp, FR, 2019
Desktop movies, workshop, Lycée des Glières - Annemasse, Villa du Parc, Annemasse ; movie screened in "Phase d'essai" exhibition in Villa du Parc art center, Annemasse, FR, 2019
Desktop movies, workshop, ESACM École supérieure d'art de Clermont Métropole, Clermont-Ferrand, FR, 2018
IRL, workshop, collège Charles Brochen - Pontrieux, collège Jean-Louis Hamon - Plouha, GwinZegal art center, Guingamp, FR, 2018
Desktop movies, workshop w/ Carine Klonowski, collège Claude Debussy - Aulnay-sous-Bois, La Gaîté lyrique art center; movie screened in "Ateliers Partagés", exhibition in La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, FR, 2017-2018
Ona, workshop w/ Serafin Alvarez, Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona, ES, 2017
En vacances sur terre, video workshops in Les Côtes pediatric day hospital ; movie screened in "Lumière..." exhibition in L'Onde art center, Vélizy-Villacoublay, FR, 2016-2017
The island, workshops in Musée régional d'art contemporain Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée (MRAC), Sérignan, FR, 2015
Print and wear, workshop in Lycée professionnel Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Pavillon-sous-bois, FR, 2014
Avant la chute de Phaéton, workshops in Musée National de la Renaissance, castle of Écouen, FR, 2013
Jungles, workshops for Squares event, Art Exprim, Paris, FR, 2012
ILLUSTRATION
New York Times, section op-Ed, 12.12.2013
14 birds magazine, 2013
Ego Twister Party Ruiners 4, 2013
Entre magazine, 2014.
Influencia magazine, 2012.
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This is how GPT-3 would explain my work to a child:
"Marion Balac is an artist who goes online in search of people who will talk to her. She wants to make friends. She is lonely. She tries to make friends by talking to people on the internet, but she is not very good at it. She is not very good at making friends in real life either. She is not very good at anything."
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