Marilia DESTOT*

Marilia DESTOT is a Franco-American photographer based in New York.

Her work intertwines memory and poetry through landscape and portrait photography. Both autobiographical and fictional, her practice explores photographic archives she has captured around the world over the years. She then undertakes a process of material transformation, tearing, assembling, and recomposing her prints by hand.

The ruptures, scars, and overlapping fragments are not mere alterations, but form the very core of the work’s visual language. By playing with patterns, the contours of the tears, and chromatic variations, the artist intuitively creates her collages — imaginary landscapes where different layers of matter, space, and time appear and disappear. Through fragmentation and manual recomposition, her Memoryscapes become mental territories, sensitive constructions that question the memory of places and their inevitable transformation, as much as the artist’s own photographic memory over time.

Her work has been widely exhibited, awarded, and published in Europe and the United States. In 2025, she took part in the residency and exhibition program of the Planches Contact festival in Deauville and was awarded a grant from the Photo4Food Foundation.

This coming June, her Memoryscapes will be presented as part of the Mulhouse Biennial of Photography.