• From Jul 17, 2026 - 6:00 PM to Aug 31, 2026 - 7:00 PM

    Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort / 30 / France

    I am participating in the collective exhibition Vegetal at the Gallery at the End of the World in Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort. I am presenting In the Vegetal, a series of six photographs taken with wild plant gatherers between 2016 and 2026 …
  • Marion Lavabre

    8 months • Edited

    Artistic approach How to connect to the living? This is the question that runs through my work. Based on long-term field surveys, I develop a photographic practice attentive to the connections between people, their living environments, and …
  • For 15 years, I have been accompanying a Cévennes shepherd family on transhumance. From the 93-year-old great-grandmother to the 20-year-old grandson, these enthusiasts live in a semi-nomadic way, close to the animals and the cycles of the …
  • Marion Lavabre

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    Work / Projects

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    Inhabiting the Living: Gestures and Natural Knowledge Exploration of the gestures by which humans inhabit living environments. Picking, walking with a herd, traveling through a territory are all ways of connecting with the living …
  • Marion Lavabre

    8 months • Edited

    How to connect with the living? A long-term photographic research
  • Marion Lavabre

    8 months • Edited

    Bodies, Cultures, and Knowledge Human cultures transmit their relationships with the living through gestures, learning, and rituals. Photography observes these practices and the ways they shape bodies and identities. Becoming Woman …
  • During World War I, several hundred Vietnamese workers were recruited from the protectorate of Annam to work in the dynamite factory at Paulilles, on the Catalan coast. Many died on this site and their bodies disappeared without burial …
  • Marion Lavabre

    8 months • Edited

    Memory, traces and rituals Some stories disappear with those who lived them. Between archives, landscapes and ethno-photographic rituals, these images question how societies attempt to preserve a memory of the departed and the worlds they …
  • A soul banner Ritual object intended to guide the soul of the deceased. The Annamite Souls - 2: The Soul Retrieval In an article published in 1933, Vietnamese ethnographer Nguyèn van-Khoan describes a ritual intended to appease the souls …
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  • Annamite workers mobilized at the Paulilles dynamite factory, 1916. During the First World War, several hundred Vietnamese workers were recruited in the protectorate of Annam to work at the Paulilles dynamite factory, on the Catalan coast …
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  • Conducted in Ethiopia, this series stems from a photographic survey conducted among Afar women, a pastoral society in the Horn of Africa. In this world where knowledge is transmitted primarily through gestures, bodies learn to inhabit a …
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  • Gestures and natural knowledge Humans inhabit living environments through gestures. Gathering, herding a flock, exploring a territory are all ways of connecting with plants, animals, and landscapes. Stemming from long-term photographic …
  • Transhumance

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    For over fifteen years, I have been photographing the life of a shepherd family in the Cévennes and the seasonal movements that connect the valleys to the high-altitude pastures. Through the paths of the flock, the images capture the …
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  • Harvesting

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    This photographic series explores the human ways of connecting with wild plants through contemporary foraging practices. Created in several regions of France, the work focuses on the gestures, landscapes, and knowledge that connect …
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  • Marion Lavabre

    10 months

    I am currently developing a long-term documentary research-creation project in Costa Rica, born from a desire to engage with the Bribri society. This work focuses on the connections between transmission, territory, and practices related to …
  • From Oct 02, 2025 - 9:00 AM to Oct 04, 2025 - 6:00 PM

    Forcalquier / 04 / France

    From October 2 to 4, 2025, my photographs of gatherers will accompany the reflections of participants at the ethno-botanical seminar in Salagon.
  • "How can the arts and sciences help build terrestrial alliances?" This is the exciting question that researchers at the summer university will explore from July 12-19, 2025, at the Moulin des Baronnies in Sarlabous (65). My photos of …
  • Marion Lavabre

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    On Monday, August 31, 2020

    Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort / 30 / France

    I invite those who wish to meet me and honor the Annamites to the exhibition in Paulilles, at 2 PM, on Wednesday, September 2, 2020. This date carries a powerful symbolic charge as it is both the National Day of Vietnam and the anniversary …
  • Marion Lavabre

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    Ten women, chosen at random from the 7500 participants in the Resistants' meetings on the Larzac in August 2023. A snapshot of words to reveal their struggles. A photo to express their resistance. Ten women standing, in the wind. Text: R …
  • Marion Lavabre

    3 years • Edited

    From Sept. 23 to Oct. 2, amidst fears of a second wave of COVID and prefectural decrees banning gatherings of more than 10 people, the street arts company 1 Watt is invited for a residency in Montréjeau (31) by CNAREP Pronomade(s) to …
  • Marion Lavabre

    4 years • Edited

    Marion Lavabre ethno-photographer A journey at the frontier of art and ethnology Marion Lavabre is an ethnologist, photographer, author, director of POeM (petite œuvre multimedia). Originally from Toulouse, she lives and works in the Gard …
  • Marion Lavabre

    4 years • Edited

    Here, in collaboration with Raphaëlle Garetta, an ethnologist from the Botanical Conservatory of the Pyrenees and Midi-Pyrénées, is the POM on bear's garlic, the 4th part of the investigation into the words and gestures of professional …
  • On Friday, July 31, 2020

    Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort / 30 / France

    An ethno-photographic incursion into the French colonial memory. During the First World War, between 60 and 1000 Annamites (Vietnamese) were mobilized by the French army at the Paulilles dynamite factory, between Port-Vendres and Banyuls …
  • On Saturday, October 19, 2019

    Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort / 30 / France

    I will be back in Lagrasse for the return of the shared residency at the Maison du Banquet. I will be pleased to reunite with my co-residents Dorothée Delacroix and Diane Barbe, as well as the entire Banquet team.