Marilou Poncin lives and works in Paris.

As a visual artist, she studied at the Beaux Arts de Lyon, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, and ENSAD Paris.

Her work explores our fantasies in their encounter with new technologies. Her projects feature camgirls, avatars, love dolls, and influencers: these predominantly female figures populate the digital imagination. Each of the phantasmagorical worlds she explores reveals our individual and collective relationships with the societies in which we live, encompassing tastes, desires, lacks, and prejudices.

Manipulating video installations, photography, painting, and ceramics, her works intersect multiple formats and mediums. Through the enlargement and accumulation of images, the artist reduces the distance between her subjects and the viewers, thereby offering them a tactile experience of the images and bodies.

Launched in 2015 after receiving the Inrocks Lab award (new video creation), her work was subsequently exhibited at Espace Témoin (Geneva), Frac Île-de-France, La Villette, Les Magasins Généraux, La Gaîté Lyrique, and at festivals such as the Créteil International Women’s Film Festival and Videoformes in Clermont-Ferrand. More recently, she designed a multimedia installation for CAC Passerelle Brest and a photo series exhibited at the Ricoh Art Gallery in Tokyo, curated by Pascal Beausse. In 2022, she was shortlisted for the Sam Prize for Contemporary Art and was invited by MAC Lyon for her first solo museum exhibition. Supported by the Fondation des Artistes, she created a new multimedia installation titled Liquid Love is Full of Ghosts, currently presented at the Discovery Award of the Rencontres d’Arles Photography Festival 2024.