Marcel
Collection
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In Scarlet Night, a figure emerges from darkness holding candlelight that reveals and conceals in equal measure.
The work balances vulnerability and power, inviting viewers into a ritual of shadow, intimacy, and withheld truth .
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In Difference Through Sameness, four repeated portraits shift in color, transforming a constant gesture into evolving identities.
Through subtle variation, the work meditates on perception, repetition, and how difference quietly emerges from the familiar.
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In Echoes, overlapping figures fracture into multiple selves, layered in light, shadow, and color.
The work reflects identity as fluid and reverberating—shaped by memory, repetition, and transformation.. Photograph on Metal
In Life on Mars, Marcel presents a portrait suspended between the human and the otherworldly.
Saturated color and fractured light evoke dislocation, reinvention, and identity as an open possibility.. Photograph on Metal
In Metamorphosis #1, a folded body and emerging wing capture the fragile threshold between retreat and renewal.
The work frames transformation as vulnerable and unfinished, holding possibility within uncertainty.
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In Masking, a formally dressed figure confronts the viewer as identity dissolves into swirling distortion.
The work questions self-presentation and the fragile boundary between protection, performance, and erasure.
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In As I Am, Marcel presents a portrait of resilience, centered on a scarred torso held in a gesture of self-affirmation.
The work rejects idealization, insisting on embodiment, survival, and the power of being seen as whole.
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In Hiding, the human form dissolves into the forest, suspended between exposure and concealment.
The work reflects vulnerability, self-protection, and the quiet act of survival through disappearance. Photograph on Metal
Marcel — Between Selves
Marcel’s work inhabits the shifting space between visibility and concealment, vulnerability and transformation. Across this series — Masked, As I Am, Hiding, Metamorphosis #1, Life on Mars, Echoes, Scarlet Night, and Difference Through Sameness — the body becomes a canvas for questions of identity, memory, and becoming.
At times, Marcel presents the figure in stark intimacy: a scar traced across the chest (As I Am), or the soft weight of a hand held against the skin (Hiding). At other times, the body dissolves into abstraction, multiplied silhouettes (Echoes), or refracted color-fields (Life on Mars, Difference Through Sameness). In Metamorphosis #1, wings emerge from a curled body, suggesting transformation as both painful and transcendent. In Scarlet Night, flame becomes both illumination and concealment, a ritual of exposure held in shadow.
What unites these works is a refusal of fixed identity. Marcel’s figures are never static portraits but shifting presences — fractured, layered, or in flux. They embody the echoes of past selves, the mask of performance, the possibility of reinvention.
This is a collection about becoming: about the courage to reveal, the instinct to hide, and the beauty of transformation in its many forms. Marcel does not offer certainty but invites us to dwell in ambiguity — where the self is never one thing, but many, unfolding.