Marine Peixoto, winner of the 4th edition of the LE BAL / ADAGP Young Creation Prize, exhibits her work at BAL from March 7 to May 19, 2024.

The municipal street workout field in Parc de Bercy, in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, attracts a large number of athletes every day. Among them, Medhy, who is behind various projects and actions aimed at making the site more than just a sports field, invited Marine Peixoto to come and photograph in May 2020.

Her practice then took on the rhythm of the field, and just as some people do push-ups and pull-ups, Marine Peixoto conducted an intensive photo shoot. To "push" every day on the field is to sculpt oneself, to work on a work of art. The routine, the repetition of training sessions and the cycle of the seasons test her determination to "occupy the present" and force her to constantly renew her point of view on the same thing. This experience of exhausting a place and a gaze is also a relentless act of faith in others and in herself.

A sculpted form of this photographic material accumulated since 2020, the installation at BAL brings together over 200 prints.
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