Marie Caye is a visual artist, performer and designer from Auvergne based in Rotterdam.

Her artistic practice unfolds within symbolic realms where geology, myth, and technology intertwine. Rooted in the mountains of Auvergne and shaped by a diasporic position between France and the Netherlands, her work constructs hybrid worlds in which human, animal, vegetal, and mineral forms dissolve into each other. These symbolic cosmologies emerge as spaces for observing the slow decay of a wheezing capitalist world, where industrial myths, technological promises, and ancestral imaginaries collapse into one another.

Drawing on Romanesque iconography, geological processes, and new digital technologies, she stages encounters between the spiritual imagination of ancient cultures and the enigmatic aura of contemporary techno-industrial commerce. Sculpture, performance, and drawing operate as zones of erosion and transformation, where symbols mutate, lose their stability, and recombine into hybrid forms.

Through collaborations with regional crafts such as stone petrification or warm glass, Marie Caye explores the tension between speed and slowness, control and material agency, what is made and what is grown. Her work unfolds as a form of symbolic world-building in which decay becomes language, ornament becomes structure, and matter itself becomes a narrator: slow, heavy, and resistant to mastery, a quiet but voracious tale feeding on the exhausted imaginaries of late capitalism.

Marie Caye is open for new collaborations, get in contact here.