Marielle Chabal devotes her work as an artist, researcher, and director to the construction of speculative fiction, more or less 'science-fiction', to question viewers about the world around them. With her regular or variable collaborators, the form of speculative fiction enables her to detect, from bricks of possibility, the fears aroused by the evolution of our societies. Her work takes the form of performative mood boards, symposiums, talk groups, films, and installations, always in formal alignment with the essence of the project. The obsessive nature of the collaborative form at the heart of her practice is reflected in her projects, as is the desire to come together to twist the world and realities through the prism of thinking about a shared future. Her works, driven by a collective and 'elastic' energy, are devices for re-apprehending and influencing the realities that overwhelm us and fictionalizing the real, in line with her vision of a re-evaluation of the social and political role of art.
After studying at Hypokhâgne-Khâgne and Sciences-Po, she attended the Villa Arson in Nice and obtained a Master's degree at the Royal College of Arts in London. She has taken part in numerous residency programs in England (Bluecoat Art Center, Schwartz Gallery), Norway (NKD, Sandness, Fordypningsrommet, AiR-Bergen), Palestine (El Atlal), Montenegro (FKK Resort), India (KYTA) and France (la BOX, la Synagogue de Delme, la Cité Internationale des arts or la Fondation Fiminco). In 2016, she attended François Piron's post-graduate program in Lyon. She received the Audi Talent Awards in 2019 and joined the Research Program at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group shows and screenings, including at the Palais de Tokyo (alt+R, Alternative réalité, 2019), the Centre Pompidou (Al Qamar, 2023), the Jan Van Eyck Academie (Free From Desire. A lie for massive gentrification, 2019), in Maastricht, at 40Mcube (As Free As Ones Could Claim, chronicling an emancipation, a crash and a collateral gentrification along the curves of the Judean Desert, 2018) and at the Grand Café (Power Up, 2024), in Nantes and St-Nazaire, as part of the Nova XX biennial program, at the Lyon Biennial, at DeApple and the Boijmans in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, at Les Tanneries art center (We Are, 2023) at the Fiminco foundation (Urban Odysseys, 2023), at the Ocat Institute in Beijing (True Paradise, 2021), or at the NARS Foundation in New York, the Kunstwerk Carlshütte in Büdelsdorf, the Electric Blue Gallery in London and the Initial Gallery in Vancouver.
