Marie Zolamian
Beirut, 1975
Lives and works in Liège
Following an academic career that ended in 2005 at the École supérieure des Arts de la Ville de Liège, Marie Zolamian has developed a body of work that she describes as “a series of visual sequences that, over time, constitute an experimental documentary of a fictional ethnology”. Her research focuses essentially on encounters with others and their cultures. Her work takes the form of a multi-disciplinary practice in which painting plays an essential role.
Marie Zolamian is the creator of two perennial works integrated into architecture: in 2022, “Welkom – Bienvenue – Welcome – Willkommen”, a 76m2 marble mosaic installed at the entrance to the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, and “Lignes de vie” on the ventilation and surveillance tower of the Fort de Flémalle, in 2014, as part of the commemorations of the First World War.
In recent years, his work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Bombon projects gallery in Barcelona (2024), “Droomland” (Jester, Genk, 2022), “Regenerate” (Wiels, Brussels, 2021), “Untitled” (Galerie Nadja Vilenne, Liège, 2019) and “Bienvenue” (Mu.ZEE, Ostend, 2018).
-Pierre Henrion