Exposition : Marina DH

The Maxime Moreau Space presents the works of Marina DH, an artist who reclaims traffic codes to transform signage into art.

Marina DH humorously transgresses by systematically appropriating a familiar everyday object: the road sign and its variations. Her work plays with the alphabet of shapes, colors, and meanings dictated by modern social codes, aiming to create new symbols, question cultural references, entertain with the mundane, and steer away from an often tragic news cycle.

In 1990, Marina earned her Master’s in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Letters and Arts in Aix-en-Provence, focusing on the theme “diversion to create from sign to art.”

In her search for decommissioned signs, she began collecting rare pieces, studying the origins of road signage in France. This interest led her to work for over fifteen years in road engineering, culminating in two published works on the history of French road signage, released in 1994 and 1998.

Since 2006, Marina has dedicated herself entirely to her artistic practice, joined the Maison des Artistes in 2009, and established her studio on Rue(s) des Arts in Trévoux in 2013. An emerging artist, her work has been exhibited in galleries since January 2021.

Her mediums vary: sometimes metallic and reinvented signage, sometimes pictorial—using collage or writing on canvas—or vector-based works.