Rachel Marsil was born in Lille, France in 1995. She is originally from the Senegal and currently lives in Paris.
She graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs de Paris and developed an artistic language at the crossroads of textile design and painting. Her multidisciplinary work deals with questions of identity and the representations that can be linked to it. Through her research, Rachel Marsil attempts to understand the different dynamics of memory and identity conveyed by the cultural circulation of images, both personal and archival, in a postcolonial, multicultural and globalized world.