Biography

     Jean-Marc Munerelle works in the uncertain space that separates the body from its images — where the self encounters its environment, where the artist's gesture and the camera's eye contest the real without ever fully possessing it.

Trained at the Royal College of Art in London and then at Le Fresnoy — Studio National des Arts Contemporains, he has built a plural practice that refuses specialisation as a form of comfort. Photography and drawing, assemblage and painting, video and interactivity : each medium is for him a different way of asking the same questions: what does technology do to the way we inhabit a body, perceive a presence, believe in what we see? How is our being shaped by environments that are sometimes endured, sometimes desired?

His works do not seek to answer. They hack. They subvert the protocols of the visible to reveal what our perceptual habits have learnt to no longer see: the quiet violence of interfaces, the latent memory of objects, the fragility of the body in the face of systems that claim to serve it. The real, in his work, is always already altered — and it is precisely in that gap that something essential becomes legible.

He has shown his work at numerous festivals and institutions: Lille 2004, File.org in São Paulo (2007), Marseille-Provence 2013, CNAC Beaubourg, and others.

He lives and works in Paris.