We evolve by stepping on others, whether it is insects, animals, plants or humans. From the moment you are unwanted you are pushed away, smashed, burned, and disposed of. Companies make people relocate demolishing their houses; booming cities burn down valleys, pushing and killing its wildlife; societies exterminate the unwanted rodents and people. We all live on this planet and yet, everyone is someone else’s unwanted pest.
Marie Blampain is a conceptual fine art photographer born in 1992 in New Caledonia and currently based in Mexico. Her work is rooted in a studio-based, constructed photographic practice that explores identity, embodiment, and states of transition. Across her projects, existential concerns emerge through familiar situations and the human body, suspending fixed identity and drawing attention to moments of passage, transformation, and becoming. The images she produces are composed with an emphasis on clarity and structure, carefully designed to minimize visual noise and distraction.