Marcy Petit is a French artist, living and working between France and England.
As a young mixed-media artist, she pursues an interdisciplinary visual work. Videos, photographs, performances, sound recordings, installations, textile ... compose a multidisciplinary practice.
Thanks to one of her teacher, Bertrand Clavez, she also first developed a practice oriented to the “performing action” during her studies at the University of Rennes (FR). This artistic medium represents an important part of her artistic work by using her own body as a medium in her work and in performances.
The artworks of Marcy Petit seek to talk mainly about the representation of the feminine body in our society and feminist concerns and issues. She has therefore generated a series of works making a stance that is feminine, feminist, sometimes ironic and politic.
She also work around the notion of relational art, seeking to give voice to the “normal” or “seemingly ordinary” people around her.
The observation and reflexion of landscapes and territories are also two important notions in her work since an artistic residency in Spain. From that experience, she is currently working on a serie of new projects around the representation of natural environments, landscapes and natural prints.