**Galerie Basia Embiricos**
(Paris, le Marais, 2023)

**L'aiguille d'or**
(Paris, le Marais, 2023)
Curator : Anthony Ong

**Artschild**
(Paris, Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 2021)

**Maison Contemporain x Espace Bertrand Grimont**
(Paris, le Marais, 2020)

**Galerie Edouard Escougnou**
*Claustrum* (Paris, le Marais, 2020)

The exhibition aims to question our feelings of this divisive period of confinement and questions our internal relationships with the outside world and others.

**Prix Icart**
(Espace Christiane Peugeot, 2020)

Curator : Artistik Rezo

**Talents Émergents de la Région Ile-de-France**
(Chapelle des Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2019)

Curator : FoRTE program

"Mark Daovannary questions the substance of living matter through its definitions and properties. He explores the origin, energy and consciousness of materials shaped by nature or by man.

Thus, a dormant mountain and an inert object have a story to tell. Between alchemy, science and anthropology, Mark Daovannary gives them body, life, movement, transforming and personifying them. He appeals to the inherent animism of childhood.

He uses simple forms and universal symbols, a cube, a watch, a tree trunk, to create pure and dreamlike sculptures and installations. This common language focuses on the essential and allows everyone to project their imagination.

For it is above all a question of point of view. Mark Daovannary confronts us with our own reference points, both innate and acquired. Carried by Asian influences, he accompanies his pieces with haikus. These short enigmatic poems orient, disorient, without ever imposing anything. What if the substance of life resided in subjectivity?"

Ariane Picoche, at the collective exhibition of Emerging Talents Ile-de-France (2019) - Journalist

*Lou Carter Gallery*
*Silencing dinner of* (Paris, 2019)

Through a reconstruction of a dining room imagined by Lou Carter, the entire exhibition scenography invites us to feel the presence of ten guests around a family meal, but whose physical essence is no longer.
The correlation between the eight visual artists invited to dialogue around the theme of the installation takes us back to the intimate relationships of these characters, as well as those between the space and its use.

**Rue de Tanger**
*Alter* (Casablanca, 2019)

Casablanca Heritage Reconciliation

Curator : Amine Slimani

**Galerie Mansart**
*A separation, remorse and crime* (Paris, le Marais, 2018)
Starting with these two lines, A Separation, Remorse and Crime, taken from Pierre Reverdy's poem Late at Night, written in 1918, they commemorate the centenary of an often irreversible rupture and question us on the movement of a connection with the other which, at the same time as it makes us stronger, makes us more fragile.

Curators : Jérôme Nivet-Carzon and Azad Asifovich

"The anguish of not knowing the past, the origin of (his) parents and also this break with the past in order to make them or us stronger. A complexity blocked between 2 periods."

Jérôme Nivet-Carzon and Azad Asifovich, galerie Mansart (2018), curators

**62ème Salon de Montrouge**
*Raising dust* (Montrouge, 2017)

In 1920, Marcel Duchamp let the dust accumulate on his Large Glass. Man Ray realized a bird's-eye view of it, Raising Dust, initially named *View from an Aeroplane*. Since then, different ways of feeling, of looking, of making the elements speak have emerged. They question the reality of things and materials in their diversity. The material that inspires them is a state of energy that animates them. They envisage subtle interactions with "objects", at the risk of keeping them invisible or in a "virtual" state.

Curators : Ami Barak et Marie Gautier

"Originating from a multicultural family, educated in diverse forms of society and religion, between the West and Asia, Mark Daovannary uses his experience to question how the individual positions himself, historically or sociologically, in relation to others: communities, ancestors, strangers, friends… By means of literary and formal metaphors, the practice of haiku, sculpture, and the staging of the body as a field of spatial and temporal investigation, the artist attempts to redefine one's origins, history and identity.”

Anne-Sarah Bénichou, as part of the 62nd Salon de Montrouge (2017) - gallery owner