Temple Bar Gallery + Studios welcome artist-in-residence Marion Lachaise

Marion Lachaise will spend two weeks in residence at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios where she will spend time at Dublin Criminal Courts. Since 2015, Lachaises has spent time at court hearings focussing her drawing practice on shifts in attention, fragmented statements and translating looks into visual trajectories. This research in the form of notes, flows, and diagrams are starting points for her paintings where brush strokes, scale and ratio, contrasts and rhythms progress towards a point of intersection. The highlight is a zone of concentration for the viewer's gaze.

Through installations, Marion Lachaise offers a dialectic between seeing and being seen, looking and being looked at, which links the body and the gaze of the spectator. Its plasticity evokes the notion of the scene, the construction of a plot. Her representations call for an experience of movement, a subjective event of time and space. This dialectic decomposes into several mediums (drawing, photography, painting, sculpture, video, text) and optical devices such as the theatrical confrontation of the stage and the room, the frame as window and threshold, augmented reality.

Marion Lachaise is a French artist who has exhibited widely both in France and internationally. Select solo exhibitions include Vis-à-Vis Festival, Théâtre Paris-Villette, Paris (2024); Cadre en Seine, Paris, (2022); Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden (2022, 2020); Musée des Confluences, Lyon (2019).

This residency is kindly supported by French Embassy, Ireland.