Dorothée Marot is an honours graduate of the Ecole des Beaux Arts, but she is much more than just a painter: she also has a true sense of technological ingenuity. Her intuition led her to invent Souvenir Recomposé (Recomposed Memory), an IT tool that can be used by other multimedia artists in such diverse fields as architecture, archaeology, history and so on. Using photographs taken at a worksite that is gradually transformed into a garden, she reconstructed the history of the place by piling up a series of more or less in-focus photos. The superimposition of transparent images creates an impression of relief without using 3D modelling.

Later on, at the request of the Danish theatre Hotel Pro Forma, she developed an interactive stage with four other artists. How does it work? The project evolves in real time via the Internet. The actors on stage must interact with their colleagues in the virtual world. The main themes dealt with are schizophrenia, virtual space, real space and interactivity. To promote their new concepts, they founded a collective known as Cross Cross. The first performance took place in January 2001.

Dorothée Marot has also written a book with a friend, Yannick Le Gouar. Titled Produits d’Entretien, Ajax et Wagner, the story involves a personal conversation between two household products on the topic of aesthetic shock. A sequel is forthcoming.

Achievements since winning the grant

In 1999, Dorothée Marot created the Cross Cross collective with four other artists. She also participated in the set design for Eric Rohmer’s film, L’Anglaise et le Duc.

In 2000, Cross Cross organized a collective exhibition on the interfaces between art and design at the Danish Design Centre in Copenhagen; Marot then exhibited the first version of her project. In 2001, the digital performance website Seeing Zoom was created thanks to a collaborative effort between Cross Cross and Danish producer Hotel Pro Forma.

In 2002, Cross Cross participated in the Zapping of Number.02 at the Pompidou Centre.

In 2003, Marot participated in a photomontage exhibition at the Media Village in Paris. In 2006, she participated in the Maïs Festival in the Brussels city centre on the theme of public spaces.

In 2007, she exhibited at the Château de Fernelmont in Belgium.