“Flower for daddy” started in 2009 after the brutal death of her father. The whole family is then gathered in the living room around the body. The days that passed by seem so unreal. Beautiful flowers piled up around the coffin. So many tokens of love for this man, her beloved daddy. The artist who always loved flowers, ends up questioning what they represent: life? Death? The confusion leads Marie to take pictures in order to analyze them, dismantle them and accept what they tell about life, in its most beautiful and hardest aspects.
Marie Gruel was born in 1984 in La Roche-Sur-Yon, France. She lives and works in Paris. A 2005 graduate from the école des Gobelins of Paris, her professional life started with Parisian retouch agencies. She then accumulated various experiences, culinary photography, graphic projects, graphic production. She has also worked on many still life projects as a retoucher assistant at Clément Nachbauer’s. She currently collaborates as a freelance retoucher at Granon Digital and with various Parisian agencies, where she signed a few contracts as products photographer.
EXHIBITION
Flower for daddy
Festival Circulation(s)
February 22 – March 31, 2013
Parc de Bagatelle
Paris, France
