El color del polvo

Marion Ellena, a French-Peruvian artist born in Venezuela, presents a new series based on a trip to Peru in 2025. Her work takes the form of an archive, using photographs from different periods—including images from her adolescence and pictures of people close to her, particularly her mother. Through this material, she explores memory through the experience of exile, examining her own memories and their emotional weight. Her approach is inextricably linked to working in the darkroom, disrupting the reproducible nature of the medium. She combines collage, filters and photograms, deliberately disturbing the sharpness of the image to blur points of reference and create distance from memory. El color del polvo is devoted to memory, silence and forms of transmission, presented as an installation of chromogenic prints.