Stephanie Jeanne Marie: From Scroll Culture to Slow Looking
In a time defined by speed, endless feeds and content churn, French-born artist Stephanie Jeanne Marie moves to a different rhythm. Her medium? Slowness.
Stephanie Jeanne Marie is a French visual artist whose work privileges pigment, thread, ink, as well as loose canvases and paper. Her practice follows a rhythm shaped by purposeful slowness, recalling an embodied attention. Working with raw pigment, charcoal, thread, and loose canvas, her process is tactile, elemental, and intentionally unhurried.
CROWN - Chakra series. Stephanie Jeanne Marie.
Stephanie’s work stands in stark contrast to the hyper-speed of current visual culture. According to a Dscout study, the average person taps or swipes on their phone over 2,600 times per day. PPC Samurai research shows users spend under 2.5 seconds looking at social media content. That automatic scroll-through mindset has crept into how we engage with art. Even in galleries, viewers move from piece to piece, seeking stimulation instead of connection. Stephanie’s work resists that. It rewards a different kind of presence.
“I’m not anti-technology,” she says. “But I think we’ve forgotten how to see with depth. My work leads to reawaken that.”..
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Image Credits:
Lead: SOLAR (Detail), Stephanie Jeanne Marie - Chakra series.
All other images courtesy of the artist and as credited in photo captions.