Marie Losier – galerie anne barrault

works

*Histoires vraies* – Group exhibition 4 February – 17 September 2023 / MAC VAL Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, curated by : Frank Lamy, with Julien Blanpied (photo Martin Argyroglo)

exhibition view Excesso Chamalo by Marie Losier, (photo Aurélien Mole)

Marie Losier
Gloopie au paradis (Ben Russell), 2023
aquarelle and pencil on paper
57,5 x 82,5 cm

Marie Losier
jolis pieds poilus, 2023
céramic
33 x 13 x 9 / 33 x 13,5 x 10 cm

Marie Losier
Elise et Leo au grand galop!, 2023
aquarelle and pencil on paper
97 x 120 cm

Marie Losier
Hansel/ Gretel/ Pretzel, 2023
ceramic
15 x 10,5 x 10 cm /20 x 9 x 14 cm / 15 x 6,5 x 14 cm

Marie Losier
Super 8 carnivore, 2023
ceramic
35,5 x 29 x 7,5 cm

Marie Losier
Da Da Da (David Legrand), 2023
aquarelle and pencil on paper
89,5 x 79 cm / 86 x 97 cm with frame

Marie Losier
Sing sing, sleep slap (Sing Sing/Florian Caschera), 2023
aquarelle and pencil on paper
91,5 x 63 cm / 72 x 99 cm with frame

Marie Losier
Taxidermisez-moi, 2021
video (2021), feathers and acrylic on wood
ed. 1/3
41 x 43 x 43 cm

Marie Losier
Taxidermisez-moi , 2021
camera 16mm, 9.45’min Marie Losier Rire et Dance, 2021
video (2021), glitter, mirrors and acrylic on wood
ed. 1/3
33,5 x 37 x 40cm

Marie Losier
Rire et Dance, 2021
with camera 16mm
ed. 1/3
5.22’min

Marie Losier
Flying Saucey, 2021 (video 2006)
wig and acrylic on wood
film : 1.59′ / box : 37 x 40 x 33 cm
ed. 2/3

Marie Losier
Lunch break on the xerox machine, 2003
with a camera 16mm
3 minutes

MoMA, performance with Felix Kubin New York November 2018 MoMA, performance with Felix Kubin New York November 2018 Elina Lowenshon, 2019 oil paint on rice paper 98 x 65 cm / 104 x 72 cm (with frame) (photograph Aurélien Mole) David Legrand, 2019 oil paint on rice paper 98 x 61 cm / 104 x 72 cm (with frame) (photograph Aurélien Mole) exhibition Hello Hapiness, centre d’art le BBB, Toulouse le Printemps de Septembre Elina et les paillettes, 2019 film 9 minutes, wooden box and feathers 37 x 40 x 33 cm (photograph Aurélien Mole) Felix aux pays des merveilles, 2019 film / box and green moss 37 x 41 x 38 cm (photograph by Aurélien Mole) installation Eat My Make-up! film 6’, 2005 Eat My Make-up! film 6’, 2005 Tim Tim, 2019 oil paint on rice paper 71,5 x 56 / 78 x 64 cm (with frame) (photograph Aurélien Mole)

biography

Marie Losier (b.France, 1972), is a filmmaker and curator who’s worked in New York City for 23 years and has shown her films and videos at museums, galleries, biennials and festivals. Losier studied literature at the University of Nanterre (France, BA, 1995) and Fine Arts at Hunter College, City University of New York (MFA, 2003). She has made a number of film portraits on avant-garde directors, artists, musicians and composers, such as the Kuchar brothers, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman, Tony Conrad, Genesis P-Orridge, Alan Vega, Peter Hristoff, Peaches and Felix Kubin. Whimsical, poetic, dreamlike and unconventional, her films explore the life and work of these artists.

Losier’s films are regularly shown at prestigious venues such as The Cannes Film Festival, The Berlinale, The Rotterdam Film Festival, IDFA, The Tate Modern, MoMA, Le Palais de Tokyo, Le Centre Georges Pompidou and La Cinémathèque Francaise. She was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum, N.Y.C). She had a retrospective of her films at MoMA – Museum of Modern Art in NYC – in 2018 and the museum acquired all of her films for the MoMA archives. In 2019, she presented a mid career retrospective at Le Jeu De Paume, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Paris as well as for the Cinematheque of Athens in 2019 and the Cinematheque of Brussels in 2021.

Losier’s first feature film was a portrait of pioneering musician-artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV) and her partner Lady Jaye. The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2011, winning the Caligary and the Teddy Awards. She also won the Grand Prize at Indielisboa, the Prix Louis Marcorelles and the Prix des Bibliothèques at Cinéma du Réel; the film was released in cinemas in France, Canada, Mexico, Germany and in the USA.

In 2013/14 Losier was awarded the prestigious DAAD Residency Award in Berlin and the Guggenheim Award to work on her new feature film Cassandro The Exotico!, a portrait of the celebrated Mexican wrestler Saul Almendariz. Cassandro The Exotico! produced by Tamara Films, premiered at The Cannes Film Festival in May of 2018 (ACID CANNES). It was released in France in 2018 and in 2019 in the US (it premiered at the Metrograph NYC).

In 2019, she premiered a new film, Felix in Wonderland!, at Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland: a feature film on the German musician and composer, Felix Kubin. The film is produced by Ecce Films.

She had an exhibition, in collaboration with Pauline Curnier Jardin, at the Fondation Ricard in 2019, and then, a first solo exhibition at Galerie Anne Barrault in Paris, where she exhibited drawings and film installations (January 2020). She also had a solo show at The Solar Gallery in Vila Do Conde in Portugal in 2022.

In 2024, Marie Losier had a solo exhibition at the Institut Français in Cambodia and at Casa del Lago in Mexico City.

She has been working on a film portrait, for 6 years, on the band and artists, The Residents from San Francisco.

After 17 years of creation, she presented her film dedicated to Peaches, entitled Peaches Goes Bananas! at the Venice Film Festival.

Next autumn, she will be exhibiting at the Creux de L’enfer art center in Thiers in collaboration with ARLT, and in 2025 at the Transpalette art center in Bourges.

marielosier.com

Solo exhibitions

2025

Marie Losier | Transpalette, Bourges

2024

Kino Volcano | Le Creux de l'Enfer, Thiers

Marie Losier | Casa del Lago, Mexico

Marie Losier | Institut Français, Phnom Penh, Cambodge

2023

Marie Losier | Excesso Chamalo | Galerie anne barrault – Paris

2022

Marie Losier | Saison France-Portugal | Festival Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal

Marie Losier | retrospective & carte blanche | Cinematek, Bruxelles

2021

Marie Losier | TheFilmGallery, Paris

Marie Losier | Launch and signature of Pleased to Meet You | Galerie anne barrault – Paris

2020

Eat my Makeup! | Galerie anne barrault – Paris

2019

Confettis atomiques ! | Retrospective | Musée du Jeu de Paume

Parties, sans éteindre la lumière | Pauline Curnier-Jardin et Marie Losier | Fondation d'entreprise Ricard - Paris | Curated by: Eric Mangion

2018

Just a Million Dreams | MoMA, New York | Curated by: Sophie Cavoulacos

Hello Happiness ! | Printemps de Septembre | BBB, Toulouse

2017
la face cachée de la réalisatrice, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse

2016
Hello Happiness, Centre national des arts modernes de la République du Bélarus
La Parole du Hibou, Festival (TJCC), vidéo et performance, programmation de Joris Lacoste au théâtre de Gennevilliers

Group exhibitions

2024

Un été à la campagne | Le Moulin de Constance, Pons

Happy Here in A Happy House | La Gaya Scienza, NIce | Curated by: Emilie Flory

Contre-soirée | galerie Michel Journiac, Paris

2023

Echelle Humaine | Lafayette Anticipations, Paris | Curated by: Amélie Coster & Madeleine Planeix-Crocker

Festival Alingue e Apostrofi | Stecca3, Milano, Italy

Féminin singulier, formes du réel | Centre Pompidou, Paris

NADA, New York | 548 West, New York

For this first edition of the meetings Input,Julien Bécourt invites the artist, filmmaker and curator, Marie Losier. | Fondation d'entreprise Pernod Ricard, Paris

Molinier rose saumon | Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux | Curated by: Marie Canet, Emmanuelle Debur & Claire Jacquet

Chrysalide, Le rêve du papillon | Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève

2022

Drawing Now, Paris | le Carreau du Temple, Paris

2021

FIAC | with Marie Losier, Guillaume Pinard, Roland Topor | Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris

Festival Jogging | Carreau du Temple, Paris

Das Dritte Geschlecht (The Third Gender) | A.K.T; Pforzheim, Germany

2020

Carnaval & Mascarades | Institut pour la photographie, Lille

2019

La société du spectral | Caroline Deruas, Yann Gonzalez, Alain José Garcia Vergara, Marie Losier, Bertrand Mandico | galerie Cinéma, Paris

D’une rive à l’autre | Mairie de Ayguesvives | Curated by: les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse

Ce sont les îles qui se déplacent | La Passerelle, Brest | Curated by: Alessandra Prandin

2015
Villa Arson – L’ECLAT, residency and film commission, Galerie Carrée, L’Échappée Vive (Nice, France) BUREAU, Galerie NYC: group show / looping films ! (USA)
MAC VAL, screening, collective exhibition Chercher le Garçon (France)
Triennial of Vendôme, L’art de s’égarer ou l’image du bonheur . A 3 month installation: cinema, sets, costumes, and performances. A collaboration piece by Marie Losier and La Galerie du Cartable (France)
Festival (TJCC), Théâtre de Gennevilliers. Video and performance. Curated by Joris Lacoste, collaboration with Simon Fravega (Gennevilliers, France)
Festival Rencontres Internationales, Transpalette – Contemporary Art Center. Performance withFelix Kubin, Bandits-Mages (Bourges, France)
St Petersburg Contemporary Art Museum, film installation & video (Russia)
Kunstverein in Hamburg, A Paradise Built in Hell, Scopitone installation and films (Germany)

2014
Les Soirées Nomades, Fondation Cartier. Cassandro El Exotico! : direction, performance, film installation… with Cassandro, Barbara Carlotti, Simon Fravega, Louise de Ville… (Paris)
Festival Hors Pistes, Centre Pompidou, Biopic, with Jonathan Caouette and Bertrand Burgalat (Paris)

2013
Les Soirées Nomades, Fondation Cartier. Marie Déménage !, direction and performance, installation, with Joana Preiss, Peaches, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Simon Fravega, Jonathan Caouette…
Galerie Préface : Célébration, collaboration with Simon Fravega

Filmography

La Nature -music video- (2022), 16mm, 5 min, film, color, produced by Tamara Films, film by Marie Losier and Simon Fravega, with ARLT (Sing Sing and Eloise Decaze), music by ARLT from the album Turnetable

Taxidermisez moi (2021), 16mm, 10 min, color, with David Legrand, Jean-Pierre Petit, Simon Fravega, François Chaignaud, Eloise Decaze; premiered at FID Marseille 2021, Flash competition

Electric Storm, 100 Years of Theremine -music video- (2020), 16mm, 6 min, film, color, music by Dorit Chrysler, produced by Moog and Tamara Films, with Dorit Chrysler

Download Yourself – music video – (2020), 16mm, 5 min, film, color, music composed and sung by Felix Kubin, with Felix Kubin, Sophie Cavoulacos, Tony Torn, Juliana & M.J Francis Kelly, Oleg and Dima Dubson, Guy Greenberg, Dorit & Eik Chrysler, Marianne Shaneen, Victoria Keddie, M.V Carbon, Bradley Eros, Sam, Angie & Anna Diiorio, Margarita Jimeno, Joel Schlemowitz, Rachael & Gabriel Guma Rene Abernathy, Amelie Garin Davet, Steve Dalachinsky

Whitch is witch? (2020), 16mm, 6 min, film, color, with Felix Kubin, Joana Preiss, Claire Doyon and Elina Lowenhson

Felix in Wonderland! (2019), 16mm, 52 min, film, color and B&W, sound, music by Felix Kubin, with Felix Kubin

Cassandro, The Exotico! (2018), 16mm, 73 min, film, color, sound, with Cassandro alias Saul Almendariz Images of a Work #22 : Infinite Now (2017), video, 20 min, color, sound, commissioned by IRCAM and Cinéma Du Réel, film on Chaya Czernowin, composer and Professor of music at Harvard University

L’Oiseau de la Nuit (2015), 16mm, 20 min, color, with Deborah Kristal, Joao Pedro Rodriguez, Joao Rui Guerra DaMata… Omnibus Film, HERE LISBON, produced by Indielisboa with Denis Cote, Gabriel Abrantes and Dominga Sotomaya

L’échappée Vive (2015), video, 24 min, color, co-directed with Catherine Libert, with Noël Dola & Ben Vaultier

Peaches and Jesper are on a boat, who stays afloat ? (2014), video, color, 5 min, with Peaches and Jesper Just / Venice Biennial

Bim, Bam, Boom, Las Luchas Morenas! (2014), 16mm, color, 13 min, with The Moreno Sisters Alan Vega, Just a Million Dreams (2013), 16mm, color, 13 min, with Alan Vega, Liz Lamereand Dante Vega

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2011), 16mm, color, sound, 72 min, with Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye, Psychic TV…

Buyn, Objet Trouvé (2012), 16mm, color, 6min, with Byun Chong and Kiya Chong Cet Air Là (2010), 16 mm, B&W, 3 min, with April March and Julien Gasc

Slap the Gondola! (2010), 16 mm, 15min, music April March, with April March, Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge

Papal Broken Dance (2009), super 8 & 16 mm, 6 min, music PTV3, with Genesis P-Orridge Tony Conrad

Dreaminimalist (2008), 16mm, sound, 27 min, with Tony Conrad

Jaye Lady Jaye (2008), 16 mm, sound, 3 min, with Lady Jaye and PTV3

Snow Beard (2008), 16 mm, sound, 3 min, with Mike Kuchar

Manuelle Labor (2007), 16 mm, super 8, sound, 10 min, collaboration with Guy Maddin

Flying Saucey! (2006), 16 mm, color, sound, 9 min, with Flux Factory

The Ontological Cowboy (2005), 16 mm, color, sound, 15min, with Richard Foreman

Eat Your Makeup! (2005), 16 mm, color, sound, 6 min, with George Kuchar

Electrocute Your Stars (2004), 16 mm, color, sound, 10 min, with George Kuchar

Bird, Bath, and Beyond (2003), 16 mm, color, sound, 13 min, with Mike Kuchar

Lunch Break on the Xerox Machine (2003), 16 mm, B&W, silent, 3 min Sanitarium Cinema (2002), video, color, sound, 9 min

The Passion of Joan Arc (2002), video, color, sound, 9 min

Broken Blossoms (2002), video, color, sound, 10 min

Loula Meets Charlie (2002), video performance at the Ontological Theater, 7 min

The Touch Retouched (2002), video, color, sound, 6 min