Born at the end of the 80s into a family with wanderlust, Marquise grew up between West Africa and Europe before settling permanently in France around the age of 15. Nourished by her childhood abroad, a big dreamer, and a true enthusiast of images whose power, depth, and aesthetics she admires, she created her first collages from magazines she found at home at a very young age. 

A true autodidact, she uses images as a vehicle for emotion and, over the years, has developed her own unique style. Her work at the time was a mirror of her thoughts, emotions, and commitments; it can be seen as a kind of autobiography. 

It was while living in Paris that she discovered street art and its eclectic mediums. Captivated by the accessibility, freedom, and great variety of the works on offer, the desire to share her own universe began to emerge. From these discoveries, numerous photographs of streets, landscapes, and individuals were born, a technique that gradually found its place in her personal artistic practice. 

In 2017, a brutal life event would definitively alter her way of perceiving and thinking about the world; the desire to stick, the urge to share her universe, would then become an imperious need. A year later, Marquise, her street avatar, would be born – a pseudonym intentionally feminine to highlight the presence of woman/women in urban space. 

If she starts by sticking the pieces she has created so far at her place, she quickly realizes that the “poster” format is not original enough for the street. It is then that she invents a hybrid technique combining her own photographs with the more “classic” practice of collage. This new way of doing things allows her to choose the heroines and heroes of her stories and to sublimate her loved ones through poetic and dreamlike tales. Marquise then develops a composite universe, blending gentleness and commitment, a universe that aims to invite dreams but also reflection.

Committed throughout her life, through her work she wishes to highlight certain values that are dear to her, such as living together, diversity, inclusion, equality, and feminism, to name but a few. 

To this day, the artist has created a universe in which everyone is invited to dream, to project themselves, and above all, to find their place. With several hundred street collages to her name in France and abroad (England, Italy, Portugal, South Korea,...), a solo exhibition at the Cabinet d’amateur in Paris, numerous group exhibitions, as well as festivals and pieces created in situ for private individuals, Marquise continues to dream on and off the walls. It is with humor and poetry that she leads us today, as yesterday, to question our relationship with others and with the world in which we all live.