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Series of urban phenomenons.

Charlène Marchand was born in 1985 in Nancy, works and lives in Nancy (France). After a year of Applied Arts Upgrading Program, she decides to develop her artistic activity enrolling the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Metz for five years, and earns her DNSEP. As her work includes notably scenes of everyday life, she directs herself afterwards to a Master of Cinema & Audiovisual titled "Filming the reality" at the IECA of Nancy. In parallel with it, since 2007, she works as a photo/video reporter for the association Monptidoi. "As Pierre Tilman wrote about Robert Filliou, I try to "give a load of sense to the acts of ordinary life." Thus, my work focuses on everyday life, its banality, its accidents and its blunders ; as a painting of the things surrouding us, treated with humour, irony and/or sensibility. Through mediums like photography, video and publication in particular, I develop a work where the idea of association is almost ubiquitous : association of images, of situations, of state of things... Starting from an observation, from a singular look on the everyday life, my images, coming from a collection, create sense by confronting themselves and suggest an unexpected dimension..."