Born in 1991, Vincent Marcq is a French photographer who lives and works in Paris. After studying at the Beaux-Arts in Valenciennes, he joined the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles, graduating in 2016. His work was presented at the Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles as part of "special attention" given to three students. He was also noticed by the Agnès B. gallery, which exhibited it in Paris, and won the Roederer public prize at the Planche(s) Contact Festival in Deauville. Selected for the Création en Cours program in 2020, he entered a residency at the Villa Médicis for six months before returning to France.

Poignant and sensitive, often tinged with humor, Vincent Marcq's photographs address the special relationship between the individual and their habitat. They question the relationship between self-construction, the creation of intimacy and the development of urban space. Originally from the north of France, Vincent Marcq grew up in a small town near Lille whose landscape was radically transformed by the massive construction of standardized housing. Deeply affected by this phenomenon, he questions its social repercussions. If we consider housing as one of the main drivers of our personal development, what does this standardization of our environment imply? In the series aptly titled Standard, he photographs house facades whose model is directly inspired by that of "gated communities" in the United States. These images of standardized housing, which resemble isolated models emptied of any trace of habitation, evoke the deconstruction of the social fabric and the loss of our individuality.

The works of Vincent Marcq are presented in partnership with Studio Artera, an artist agency.

THE WORKS