For her first solo exhibition at the gallery, French photographer Marie Quéau presents, on the ground floor of its historic space at 17 rue des Filles du Calvaire, a new selection of works from her series Le Royaume and FURY. In both bodies of work, the artist explores the metamorphoses of the body when confronted with situations of rupture, where the boundaries between fiction and reality, control and surrender, the individual and the collective become blurred.
Drawing on real-life events that she transforms into visual narratives, Quéau’s photography stages anonymous figures engaged in rituals, performances, and extreme experiences. Bodies covered in mud, stunt performers, motion-capture actors, freedivers, and participants in fury rooms form an enigmatic community whose suspended gestures question our relationship to violence, vulnerability, and the construction of the self.
Marie Quéau, Série Fury, Sans titre #55, Action Training Productions, 2020
Courtesy of Galerie Les filles du Calvaire