Aymone (France, 1978) works across medium, from photography and video to participative experiences and performance. Her artistic approach and aesthetics are deeply influenced by her childhood in the South Pacific. Aymone is interested in contemporary rituals and the relationships between people and their natural environment. She seeks to work and collaborate in transdisciplinary projects with institutions, NGO’s and green entreprenors, at local and international scales.

Committed to expanding participatory artistic experiences, she is now Art director at YU.MI Studio, dedicated to creating immersive performances, installations, and workshops in Marseille, EuroMediterranean territories, Oceania, and beyond.

She studied art history, photography and video art at the Escola Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, while simultaneously developing a long-term practice in dance and yoga (25 years), particularly Ashtanga yoga, which she regards as “the fire of transformation.” These embodied practices inform her artistic approach, emphasizing the body as a site of transformation and a medium for contemporary rituals.
Marie Aymone develops performances and participatory practices, exploring the relationships between humans, natural environments, and collective imagination. Since settling in Marseille in 2018, she has developed socially engaged artistic projects attentive to ecological, feminist, and community concerns, often collaborating with artists and educators. She uses video as a tool for emancipation and empowerment for the participants, and also as a numerical trace.
In 2020, she created The TALE, a contemporary storytelling project combining dance, video, and ecological transition. This participatory collective work mobilizes the body and imagination to connect with oneself, others, and natural elements. The project was presented at the Contemporary Art Center Les Pénitents Noirs, selected and awarded at multiple international art festivals, and accompanied by educational and cultural mediation for young people and women.
Committed to expanding participatory artistic experiences, she is now Art director at YU.MI Studio, dedicated to creating immersive performances, installations, and workshops in Marseille, Oceania, and beyond.
In 2022, Aymone became president of the association WOMEN FOR SEA, developing projects such as the inclusive initiative Nous sommes la mer, recognized and supported by the 2024 Olympic Games committee and labeled under the Cultural Olympiads. These projects highlight women and their relationship to the sea through installations and performances in public spaces.
In 2024–25, she collaborated with the local River Syndicate and Aix-Marseille Metropole to revitalize the Huveaune river and its biodiversity, engaging local communities, collecting narratives, and co-creating sensory explorations of riverbanks and water-related activities.
In 2025, with support from the Mission aux Affaires Culturelles and the City of Nouméa, she developed Women Place, video-body workshops across New Caledonia, empowering women of all generations—high school students, tribal grandmothers, and mothers from sensitive neighborhoods—to explore free expression through movement, voice, and engagement with natural elements and traditional activities (agriculture, weaving, fishing).
Aymone’s practice bridges European, Mediterranean, and island contexts, combining artistic research, embodied knowledge, and community engagement. She leverages culture as a tool to foster peace, dialogue, and cooperation across territories.

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Video – performance – exhibitions

2026 – CNRS Art And Science Seminar – Participative experiences – Speaker

2025 – Participative experiences – Women place – New Calédonia with Mathiila and YU.MI studio

2025 – Fil Bleu – Citizen’s voices and sensory explorations of riverbanck – Science and Art project

2023 Launch of Nous sommes la mer project – inclusive navigations and installations in the city during Paris 2024

2022 THE TALE experience exhibition – performance, workshop – collaboration with Feroz Sahoulamide and Earthship sisters – Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Aubagne

2022 Isola video danse 17min – avant première – La Console Paris

2021 Performance Ile du Frioul, Théatre liberté – with Feroz Sahoulamide and Earthship sisters – Marseille, Toulon

2021 Performance and public workshop – bunker des Calanques – with Feroz Sahoulamide and Earthship sisters – Marseille

2021 Regards Méditerranée – 11min documentary – Agence de l’eau Rhône Méditerranée Corse

2020 Video dance “un jour d’été” – maisons de campagne – First innovation price at World Hospitality Awards

2020 We are Nature_2 exposition photographique – Marseille

2019    We are nature – photographic exhibition – Marseille / Bonifacio / Cassis

2019    Samena – dance performance, photography – Marseille

2019 Joséphine – photographic exhibition – salon Joséphine, groupe SOS – Paris 

2017    Aquatic RIO – Rencontres du 10ème – photographic exhibition – mairie de Paris 

2017 Nuna islanders – dance performance, photo, video – Vanuatu

2016     before we die – Photobook launch and photo exhibition – les ateliers de Belleville – Paris 

2015    Aquatic RIO –  favelas encounters – photo exhibition – Rio de Janeiro

2015    L’herbe bleue – documentary fiction 15′ – Rio de Janeiro

2002 La coutume en 2002 – documentary 10′ – lauréat concours rouletabille – Vanuatu

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Aymone’s expertise centers on creative concepts and artistic direction, as well as still photography, video and production.
Beyond her personal creations, Aymone also finds outlets for her conceptual work with innovative entrepreneurs, for example in green industries, or in impact programms.

Her film for les maisons de campagnes recieved the conceptual first price at the hospitality world awards in 2021. Her project Kenzohomme recieved the price for best masculine fragrance advertising in 2010.

Références

Paris 2024- Les musées de Marseille – L’Epage HuCA – La Mission aux Affaires Culturelles – La Ville de Marseille -La province Sud (NC) – Le FEAC – Le fond audiovisuel de Nouvelle Calédonie – Agence de l’eau Rhône Méditerranée Corse – Surfrider – La ville de Martigues – L’UNOC – Joséphine (Groupe SOS) – L’association Earthship sisters – L’association Women for sea – Kenzo – Pacific digital transformation – Eclectic – Kava World – LesHôtelsTrèsParticuliers – Cotélac- diptyque – Marsatwork