From october 8th to 13th, Marie Quéau presents her serie FURY in La Nombreuse, Bruxelles
How do you learn to fall, throw yourself out of a window, die, or smash everything to pieces on cue?
In FURY, Marie Quéau explores bodies pushed to extremes: stunt performers repeatedly thrown from windows, actors in a trance inside motion-capture studios, freedivers holding their breath underwater on the verge of losing control, and individuals unleashing their rage in a fury room.
Confronted with a world whose logic seems to elude us, the photographer turns to the poetic possibilities of reversal: a fall as the flip side of flight; a body absorbing injury or accident on someone else’s behalf; a state of trance translated into data by a machine; violence staged as a means of survival.
With FURY, Marie Quéau invites us to question our own perception of reality. What if these moments of confrontation with our limits, when body and mind waver between control and surrender, revealed what binds us together most intensely?
“The title FURY came from David Fincher’s film Alien 3 and the name of the planet, ‘Fury 161’, where the film takes place. At the very beginning of this project, I imagined that the characters I was photographing lived on this prison planet, driven by extreme telluric forces. I kept FURY because I liked the energy the title conveyed. The Furies are also persecuting deities in Roman mythology, whose figures can be found on funerary steles.” — Marie Quéau
