Marcel Mrejen

Marcel Mrejen (b. 1994 in Paris) is a Franco-Algerian visual artist and filmmaker whose explorations of the articulation of technology within living and economic metabolisms employs a range of media: installations, moving images, sound and machine learning.

He graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 2018 and was artist-in-residence at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains in Paris between 2021 and 2023. His work has been shown at Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham) and Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam), among other venues. Alongside his artistic practice, Marcel Mrejen co-organised the first REFRESH: Future-Proof in 2021.

His debut film, Memories of an Unborn Sun, won Best Short Film at Visions du Réel documentary film festival in Nyon, Switzerland in 2024 and has been screened at some forty festivals and institutions worldwide. He is the co-author, with Eliott Déchamboux, of L’Europe c’est Deutshland quand tu rates laba tu es foutue mon frère, le reste c’est du fouma-fouma, published by Jungle Books in 2019.

Gigan explores the complex mechanism of vision in the automation age. Through an immersion in the tools of technology, this film examines transformations within the contemporary agricultural landscape, as “seen” by the machines that shape it.

Through this non-anthropocentric lens, Gigan considers the power dynamics that are inherent to these automated environments, where the tools of surveillance and control define new “cyborg landscapes”, devoid of human presence.