Marylène Negro's 'I love art' Retrospective at artpress

Marylène Negro, born in 1957 and based in Paris, has produced a discreet yet persistent body of work since her debut in Jean-Hubert Martin's 1990 exhibition 'Art & Publicité' at Centre Pompidou. Her piece 'Mutation' featured 5,000 slides of mutagen agents on a light table, which visitors took away, symbolically spreading the agents. Her practice oscillates between public and private spheres, using telephones, postcards, T-shirts, and photographs. In 1992, she created 'In-Out' in Israel with slides from a bilingual gossip column. In 1996, she produced T-shirts with 'I art'. Her sound pieces, accessible by phone since 1993, include 'Un signe de vous' (2002) at Parc de Chamarande, where participants left messages on an answering machine. Photographic series 'Passeurs' (1997) and 'Pratiques' (1999) explore circulation and communication. Recent works include 'Ici' (2000), 'Eux' (168 mannequin portraits, 2001), and home videos like 'La Mouche' and 'Sourire'. She has worked on public commissions for the bicentenary of Victor Hugo's birth, proposing 'aimer, c'est agir' on billboards near the Panthéon. Her work is characterized by a rigorous synthesis of retinal, conceptual, and behavioral dimensions.