Born in 1977 in Paris, Marina Gadonneix is a graduate of the École nationale supérieure de la photographie d’Arles. Her work focuses on the reverse side of images and her photographs, almost abstract in nature, conjure up a reality that has not yet taken place. At the crossroads between documentary and fiction, Marina Gadonneix photographs places of experimentation as well as spaces of daily life emptied of any human presence, oscillating between simulation and illusion. 

She was awarded the HSBC Young Talent Prize in 2006, as well as the Niépce Prize in 2020. Her work has been exhibited in numerous institutions in Europe and the United States, including the Rencontres d’Arles, the Centre photographique d’Île-de-France, the Kunsthalle of Tübingen and the Point du Jour in Cherbourg. In 2023, she is the subject of two solo shows at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, in dialogue with Lynne Cohen, as well as at the FIAF in New York. She is represented by Christophe Gaillard Gallery in Paris.