Marie De Decker
Multidisciplinary artist, trained in fine arts, photography, and graphic design, Marie De Decker first made a name for herself as a portraitist.
Since 2022, she has taken hold of the language of artistic craftsmanship to develop a unique work blending image, sculpture, and installation, drawing, and performance.
Inhabited by the question of origins and transmission, Marie De Decker is interested in the correspondences between matter and memory. Her dual cultural heritage, Flanders lace and Mali Empire gold, irrigates this research, turned towards the emergence of a collective memory.
Nourished by the observation of nature, her work celebrates above all the permanence of life and invites you to wonder. Drawings, sculptures, objects, and installations compose an organic universe where motifs – feather and shell – and light evoke the symbolic forms and flows of the terrestrial and celestial worlds.
The mangroves of the Indian Ocean are her territory of inspiration and the laboratory of her commitment to sustainable creation. The artist collects fishing nets and abandoned materials, and associates them with natural materials (mother-of-pearl, plant fiber, shell). Imprinted with the contact of fauna and flora, these elements carry their own history within them. They are ancient, forgotten objects (jugs, family coffers), to which she gives a new presence.
Marie De Decker has chosen to use gold as a revealer. A metal of origins, born from the cosmos and present on Earth since its formation, it connects the perceptible and the invisible, the past and the future; it comes to tell and fix stories in time.
To liberate the metal from the surface and defy gravity, the artist develops her own techniques, inspired by the expertise of gilding and textiles. Her gold filigree draws in space with an unreal lightness effect, conducive to contemplation.
When this gesture becomes a performance, associated with music and moving images, the artist invites the spectator to inhabit a space of presence and awareness detached from usual benchmarks.
Born in Paris in 1988, Marie De Decker lives and works between Luxembourg and Poudre d’Or (Maurice).
In recent years, her work has been exhibited as part of the Paris Design Week (2024, 2026) and the Biennale Rêvélations at the Grand Palais (2025). She will participate in the autumn of 2026 in the collective exhibitions Homo Faber organized by the Michelangelo Foundation in Venice and Africa Legacy in Brussels.
The works of Marie De Decker
