Marlène Mocquet

Marlène Mocquet was born in Maison Alfort in 1979. A 2006 graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris, she lives and works in Paris.

Marlène Mocquet's artistic revelation came at the age of 15, when she was locked in a hospital room for anorexia. For three months, all she had to occupy herself with were pencils and sheets of paper. When she was released, she immediately took up painting.

Figuration is essential to her, as her work represents introspection, and representation is synonymous with emotional expression. Among her influences, she cites Robert Malaval, Josep Grau-Garriga and Paul Rebeyrolle. Although some compare her to Hieronymus Bosch, she says she only discovered him late in life, so this proximity is not deliberate.
She's in constant dialogue with order and chaos, and lets herself be creatively free, for example, letting chance begin her paintings by immersing them in a bath of emulsions of lean and fat bodies. She then chooses the story she wants to tell: a universe populated by strange creatures, shimmering colors and plant motifs.