Adèle Marchetti is a visual artist born in 1997 in Lyon. She discovered photography in middle school using analog cameras found at flea markets. She only did black and white photography, appreciating its timeless quality, which perhaps reassures her. After a brief stint at La Cambre School in Belgium, she obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Art with a specialization in images from Lumière University Lyon 2. This was followed by a Master’s degree at EMA Fructidor School in Chalon-sur-Saône in 2021.

Adèle captures people from her close circle as well as the landscapes she traverses. She works from images in her personal archives, initially taken with analog cameras during the first two years of her photographic practice, and later digitally, a medium she appreciates for its speed, immediacy, and infinite possibilities.

At home, she works on her photographic prints using a knife, wax, or ink. “I draw lines like incisions on photographic paper, and the handwritten texts reference excerpts from books, astronomical definitions, or fictional works,” she explains. As she reads, she annotates phrases and quotes in a notebook, which she later inscribes onto the images she works on by hand. The poem “Burnt Norton” by American poet T.S. Eliot was the starting point for the series titled “Line.”

In January 2018, Camera magazine published one of her reworked images, taken during a trip to Ireland, in its 20th issue. In 2021, she presented her photographic work printed on jute canvases in an exhibition titled “Line” at the former Kodak factory in Chalon-Sur-Saône. Simultaneously, she presented “Down the Passage that We Did Not Take,” a video installation project projected onto the walls of a dark room, as if inside a head. She re-filmed photos of her sister, great-grandmother, or boyfriend. Projected life-size, the viewer faces living and deceased beings, made tangible by the blend of techniques used.

In Lyon in the summer of 2021, she presented her hand-reworked photographic work using mixed techniques in a collective exhibition titled “Crossed Times” at the Atelier Royal gallery. For the launch of the American magazine Speciwomen in Paris, in September 2021, she exhibited a black and white photo taken in the streets of Brussels, part of a more documentary-oriented street photography series.

Her work reappeared in 2024 as she participated in the collective exhibition “Still I Rise” in Paris at the Pavé d’Orsay gallery. She presented an analog photograph from her archives, which she calls an isolated image. It depicts a scene captured in the ruins of the ancient theater of Fourvière in Lyon. Today, Adèle dedicates herself to visual and musical art projects.