Marc Étienne
Born in 1971 in Arles, France. Lives and works in Marseille.
Marc Étienne’s work looks like sketches for scenarios in which a range of materials and formal elements are involved. Sculpture, scale models, drawings, 3D animation or music, these are the many means the artist employs to produce a singular world. The artist recreates little scenes with familiar elements reproduced hyper-realistically but on a tiny scale. Thus miniaturized, these figures, either human or drawn from the world of nature (mushrooms, tree trunks, moss), plunge us into the “Valley of the Strange,” a simulacra world that changes our perception and scrambles our points of reference.