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MARINE FONTEYNE
Marine Fonteyne is a Brazilian-born, Belgian-descended, photo-based multimedia artist based in Miami, Florida. Working across photography, textile, sculpture, and installation, she transforms lens-based imagery into tactile, dimensional forms. Her practice explores memory, migration, ancestry, womanhood, and the ways personal and collective stories are preserved, altered, and carried across generations.
Through photography, fabric, embroidery, stitching, fiber, and mixed media, Fonteyne moves the photographic image beyond the frame, using sewing as both material and gesture, a way of holding, repairing, and extending memory. Her slow, labor-intensive process honors textile traditions historically associated with women and foregrounds care, repetition, and attention. Water is a recurring material and metaphor in her work, embodying memory, time, migration, healing, transformation, and resilience. Fluid and ever-changing, it reflects the movement of identity and the emotional currents connecting past and present.
Fonteyne studied at the École de la Photographie in Brussels, Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP) and ESPM in São Paulo, and Scuola di Fotografia Professionale Riccardo Bauer in Milan. After a career in marketing and commercial photography, she transitioned to fine art, developing an experimental, research-based practice rooted in expanded photographic and textile processes.
Her work has appeared in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Brides, Elle, and White, and has been exhibited internationally in galleries, museums, art fairs, consulates, and cultural institutions. She is currently an artist in residence at Red Thread Art Studio in Coral Gables and continues to create large-scale photographic and textile installations, including community-engaged projects centered on immigrant women’s stories.
Inherited ties
As a first-generation Belgian born abroad, I deeply admire my heritage and strive to honor it. Belgium’s rich textile traditions—from Flemish tapestries to Brugge’s intricate lacework—inspire my installation, which bridges ancestral connections and artistic legacy.
Central to the installation is an antique family bed, a cherished heirloom that has traveled across generations and continents to find its home with me in the United States. Draped over the bed is a lace cover, a delicate tribute to Belgium’s artistic craftsmanship and the threads that weave our family story. The photographs in the installation, some sharp and others faded, symbolize the gradual loss of memories over time from one generation to the next. Each photo is printed on canvas and intricately embroidered into the lace with red thread, echoing Brugge lace patterns and reflecting the aesthetics of early 20th- century black-and-white photography.
Red bows connect each photograph to the lace, symbolizing the strength of familial bonds. A continuous red woolen thread weaves through the photographs, bed, and other family objects, representing the unbroken and inevitable connections we inherit—shared traits, sensibilities, and passions passed down through generations. Through this work, I invite viewers to reflect on the profound ties between heritage, identity, and art.
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Inherited ties
As a first-generation Belgian born abroad, I deeply admire my heritage and strive to honor it. Belgium’s rich textile traditions—from Flemish tapestries to Brugge’s intricate lacework—inspire my installation, which bridges ancestral connections and artistic legacy.
Central to the installation is an antique family bed, a cherished heirloom that has traveled across generations and continents to find its home with me in the United States. Draped over the bed is a lace cover, a delicate tribute to Belgium’s artistic craftsmanship and the threads that weave our family story. The photographs in the installation, some sharp and others faded, symbolize the gradual loss of memories over time from one generation to the next. Each photo is printed on canvas and intricately embroidered into the lace with red thread, echoing Brugge lace patterns and reflecting the aesthetics of early 20th- century black-and-white photography.
Red bows connect each photograph to the lace, symbolizing the strength of familial bonds. A continuous red woolen thread weaves through the photographs, bed, and other family objects, representing the unbroken and inevitable connections we inherit—shared traits, sensibilities, and passions passed down through generations. Through this work, I invite viewers to reflect on the profound ties between heritage, identity, and art.
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