Trace de passage
In September 2024, Marie Capesius was invited by Clervaux – Cité de l'Image to spend a month as an artist in residence in the South Tyrolean village of Stilfs. A year later, in September 2025, she spent another month in residence at the Ermitage in Clervaux.
The exhibition ‘TRACE DE PASSAGE’ brings together works created during these two residencies. The focus is on psychogenealogy – the question of how family influences and transgenerational experiences shape our thoughts, feelings and actions. The artist drew inspiration from each location: its history, rituals, landscapes and soundscapes. From these impressions, she developed an immersive installation – an audiovisual projection that combines Polaroid photographs with a multi-layered sound collage of nature sounds.
Her work revolves around the invisible traces we carry within us: what unconscious influences do we inherit from our ancestors? How do hidden, passed-on experiences continue to affect our lives?
‘Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.’ - Carl Gustav Jung
Taking an introspective approach, Marie Capesius works with symbols, self-portraits, animal portraits and a white cloth that runs like a thread through her visual world. Familiar, almost domestic elements create an atmosphere between closeness and memory. In this multi-layered visual language, she approaches the theme of intergenerational transmission.
Using photographic processes, she makes traces of a still-present past visible. In ritualistic stagings, she brings what is hidden in the shadows to light and opens up a space in which inherited traumas and blocked emotions can be transformed. Her work moves between the visible and the invisible, the conscious and the unconscious.
Photography thus becomes an introspective instrument – a portal that reveals not only what the eye perceives, but above all what can be felt and lies beyond mere sight.
Biography
Marie CAPESIUS, *1989 in Strasbourg (FR), lives and works in Luxembourg as a multidisciplinary artist. She graduated from the ‚Ostkreuzschule‘ photography school in Berlin in 2019. She was recently awarded the Luxembourg Photography Award mentorship by Lëtz'Arles, thanks to which she participated in the mentorship programme at the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles and obtained an artist residency at La Madeleine Arles. In spring 2026, through the ENSP's VAE programme, she will be assessed by a jury for a Master's degree in Photography.