Marion Tampon-Lajarriette is fascinated by the "meta" of images. By this she means their mode of production, the beliefs they convey and the functions that representations have within a community.
A graduate of the Villa Arson and the Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Marion Tampon-Lajarriette completed her training at the HEAD Geneva in New Media. Her work has been exhibited at the MAMCO (Geneva), the Palais de Tokyo (Paris) and the Swiss Institute (New York) and is part of important collections such as those of the MAMCO, the NMNM (Monaco), the MEP (Paris) and the François Pinault Foundation (Venice). Resident at the Swiss Institute in Rome in 2017, Marion Tampon-Lajarriette, born in 1982 in Paris, lives and works in Geneva.
When asked what interests her, Marion Tampon-Lajarriette answers without hesitation that it is the "meta" of images that fascinates her. By this she means their mode of production, the beliefs they convey and the functions that representations have within a community. If we look closely at her work, it appears that an important component of Marion Tampon-Lajarriette's work is based on the invisible. She likes to probe the envelope of mystery that covers beings and things, because in its depths are the limits of human perception, of conceptual and imaginative capacities.