Marilia Destot is a french american photographer, living and working in New York.
Her personal work focuses, through portrait, dance and landscapes series, on the writing of time cycling and passing by, and our trace within it. Memory, recorded and revisited, in its most subjective and poetic ways, is at the core of her research.
She keeps experimenting the photo-medium into different narrative and visual dimensions : chronophotography, diaries, sequences, correspondence, open forms where the subject can expend through repetitions, variations, lapses. And reveals itself in fragments, echoes, illusions, free to float and resonate with the viewer’s imagination and intimate world.
Her works has been widely exhibited, awarded and published in Europe and the United States in galleries and festivals over the past 20 years.
In 2019, she’s the recipient of the Kaunas Photography Gallery Residency in Lithuania , & the Visual Studies Workshop Space Project Residency in Rochester NY , where she pursued her work “The Journey", whose show is programmed into the 24th Rencontres Photographiques of Lorient in 2021, Kaunas 2022 European Capital of Culture in 2022, and the Season Of Lithuania in France, 2024, at the Segolene Brossette Galerie, Paris.
In 2020, she publishes with the éditions Filigranes her book " la promesse", a boxset of the first three chapters of her series, along with texts from Dominique A, Sabine Huynh, and Keren Ann. Followed by 3 shows in 2021 and 22 : at Le Lieu de La Photographie in Lorient and at the Festival du Regard in Cergy-Pontoise, France and at The Blanc Gallery in New York.
Alongside her dedication to long-term personal projects, she is a regular contributor to the press, publishing houses, kids and fashion brands and a photography teacher.
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Selected exhibitions & screenings
2024 The Journey, le voyage aux origines, La Saison de la Lituanie en France 2024, Ségolène Brossette Galerie, Paris, France
2023 The fog is rising, Drozdzik, Hudson NY, USA
2022 La Promesse, The Blanc Gallery, New York, USA
2022 The Journey, a video diary , commissioned by the Litvak Forum / Kaunas 2022 , Kaunas Lithuania
2022 The Journey, the show, commissioned by Kaunas 2022 & Kaunas Photography Gallery, at Levinas Center, Kaunas Lithuania
2021 The Journey, commissioned by Emilie Teulon / 24èmes Rencontres photographiques de Lorient, at Grand Theatre de Lorient, France
2021 La Promesse , commissioned by Sylvie Hugues & Mathilde Terraube / Festival du Regard, Cergy-Pontoise (Paris), France
2021 La Promesse , Une bibliothèque photographique, 40 femmes à livre ouvert, une exposition prix HIP, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
2021 La Promesse , Le Lieu de la Photographie, Lorient, France
2019 Ellipses - excerpts, curated by the Foundation Artbridge Projects, London Terrace, Chelsea, NY, USA
2019 The Journey - excerpts, Friend of a Friend : Group show, Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn NY, USA
2017 La Promesse - les carnets, workshop édition, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
2016 Gowanus Dance, Neither Here Nor There, Radiator Arts Gallery , Long Island City, NY, USA
2015-2016 Gowanus Dance, Urban Modulations, curated by the Foundation Artbridge Projects, L’Aquila, Italy
2014-2015 Gowanus Dance, Urban Modulations, curated by the Foundation Artbridge Projects, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2011-2012 Variations for Two, Work in Progress, curated by the Foundation Artbridge Projects, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2010 Fragmented Body, Variations for Two, French Institute Gallery, New York, USA
2010 Same hour, different place..., with Angelle, La Commanderie, Lacommande, France
2010 Ellipses, Si d’aventures..., Maison de la Photographie, Grenoble, France
2009 The Body Close Up, film screening at Maison Française/NYU, New York, USA
2008 Ellipses, Bourse du Talent, BNF, Paris, France
2007 Diaries, Galerie Agnès Martel, Morges, Suisse
2004 Le bain...portraits aquatiques, Galerie MK2 Bibliothèque, Paris, France
2003 Le bain...portraits aquatiques, Galerie Cupillard, Grenoble, France
2001 La correspondance photographique, Voies Off, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
2000 Alice ecilA, Rencontres Européennes de la Jeune Création Numérique, Valenciennes, France
2000 Rêves, Voies Off, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
2000 Photomaton, portraits d'identités, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
collaborations & creations
2022 La promesse, a dance-photography collaboration with Rachel Cohen and Masumi Kishimoto during the show la promesse
2021-2 Je me souviens, a collaborative project with the viewers of the show la promesse
2009 Same hour, different place..., a photographic correspondance between France & US, with the photographer Angelle
2008 The Body Close Up, a documentary film about Ariane Lopez-Huici’s photography work
2001 La correspondance photographique , an experimental collective project with the magazine photographie.com
2000 Literary Short Movies, la princesse et le clown , & Paris ne finit jamais , ed. 00h00.com
2000 Alice ecilA, an interactive photographic fiction inspired by Alice in Wonderland from Lewis Carroll
Awards, GraNTS, RESIDENCIES
2019 Kaunas Photography Gallery Residency, Kaunas, Lithuania
2019 Visual Studies Workshop Space Project Residency, Rochester, NY USA
2008 Special Award for the series Ellipses, Bourse du Talent Espace #36 , Paris, France
2003 First Prize for the competition Ville de Paris/ Dotation Pentax, Paris, France
2000 SACD's Award for Alice ecilA, European Meeting of Young Digital Creation, Valenciennes, France
public collections
National Collection BNF, Paris, France
Public Art Collection Le Lieu de la Photographie, Lorient
Public Art Collection Artothèque de Grenoble, France
books
2020 la promesse, Marilia Destot, with texts by Dominique A, Sabine Huynh & Keren Ann, Filigranes Editions, France
2012 Ellipses, Marilia Destot, self-published
2010 La même heure, quelque part ailleurs..., Marilia Destot & angelle, self-published
exhibition catalogues
2010 Fragmented Body, with a text by Gérard de Cortanze, French Institute - Alliance Française Gallery, NY, USA
2010 Si d’aventures..., with a text by Isabelle Varloteaux, Catalogue n°5 de la Maison de la Photographie et de l’Image, Grenoble, France
selected press and online features
2022 La promesse, by Marilia Destot, an exhibition and a literary pursuit, by Emma Alcorn
2022 La Couleur des Jours n°44, Albums, la vie d’après, by Jean Perret
2019 Phases Magazine
2014 The Swap project, curated by Stuart Pillington
2013 Book Film Painting project , curated by Stuart Pillington
2012 Urbanautica platform, curated by Steve Bisson
2009 Declic Photo (France) | Marilia Destot - portfolio Ellipses, by Nathalie Degardin
2009 ArtCritical (USA) | Film review on The Body Close Up, by Deborah Garwood
2007 Photophiles (France) | Marilia Destot - l' exposition Diaries, by Laurence Bagot
2007 Journal de Morges (Suisse) | Marilia Destot - l'exposition Diaries, by Jean-Jacques Gallay
2007 Uneexpo.com (France) | Marilia Destot - photographe
2004 Photophiles (France) | Le bain...portraits aquatiques de Marilia Destot, by Laurence Bagot
2003 Dauphiné Libéré (France) | Dans le bain avec Marilia Destot
2003 Le Petit Bulletin (France) | Héroïnes au bain
2003 Les Affiches (France) | Portraits de baignoires avec demoiselles, by Jean-Louis Roux
2002 Photo Video Magazine (France) | Intuitions, entretien avec Marilia Destot, by Régine Janvier
2000 Foto Magazin (Germany/Allemagne) | NewTalent - Die Stars Von Morgen
selected clients
Christine Phung, Drozdzik, Elsa Esturgie Paris, Paper Dream Brooklyn, Vena Cava, Kimiko Mori, Uenai Couture, Lire Magazine, Psychologies Magazine, Philosophie Magazine, Nova Magazine, Archi Design, Version Femina, Marie-Claire, L'Express, Phosphore Magazine, Réponses Photo, Editions Gallimard, Editions de l'Olivier, Editions La Découverte, Cite de la Musique, Cie Songes, Babydeedee, Petidoux, Pearhead, Ubbi
education
2001 Master of Multimedia, CNAM, Paris, France
2000 Master of Photography, ENS Louis Lumière, Paris, France