Photography (MA)
Marie Muller Priqueler
Marie Muller Priqueler is a French visual artist, writer and Phytobody maniac based between London and France. Her work is characterized by psycho-analysis and philosophical research regarding woman-being and the sexuality of women, within the support of phytotherapy and biology. By making the choice to stay far from politics and gender, as well as by developing her own gaze, Marie creates pictures, installations, and writings about women’s confidence and the close relationship between them, their own sexuality, and their body. She is questioning how it feels to live as a woman in a patriarchal and phallocentric society and questioning the image that this society has created for her.
Marie is the fungus/creative director of a collective created with few RCA's brethren.
She is fierly looking for an Agent.
Group Exhibition
2020 The Global Health 50/50, This is Gender
2019 Art Academy, Everything the same//Everything a little different
2019 RPS Hundred Heroines, Representation on the Line: (Un)framing our Identities
2019 Royal College of Art, WIP Show
2017 Sofffa Gallery, Shibari Workshop
2016 Bloo School, Degree Show
2015 Bloo School, Low Cost
Lecture/Talk
2018 Festival Eros Femina, Deconstructing body and sexual norms
Award
2020 The Global Health 50/50, This is Gender - Finalist
Publication
2018 Math Magazine, Issue Six
Over the past year, I have been making a body of work that attempts to detach sexuality from politics and capitalism. This idealistic effort characterises the spiritual and ephemeral nature of my work and its resistance to categorisation.
I’m challenging definitions of photography, self-portraiture, modelling, and writing, and I am fighting to cast off established classifications by refusing to fit anywhere. Using my own body as my main medium, I am exploring the inner-workings of the female psyche, female sensuality, and female intimacy. My work attempts to evade ‘narcissistic’ attention to my self image, pursuing instead a more ambivalently dialogical relationship to such along to the metaphysical dimensions of my body.
In this specific collection of works, I question the accepted photographic print to investigate my body as a mutable and woundable thing, as a broken but mended object, testing the limits of social orders and taboos.
By photographing details of my body printed onto seeded plant based handmade paper, I’m exploring my recent experience with the use of plants to treat hormonal dysfunction. Indeed, researches as shown that the body, mind, and menstrual cycle are unable to work properly and independently after a long period of chemical contraception ingestion, and that the daily intake of artificial hormone is carcinogenic for women.
The plants that grow from photographs of my flesh are the illustration of the deterioration, metamorphosis, and then rebirth of a physical and psychic body damaged by ingested products.
Here then appears the symbiosis between nature and the material body in my work, and the creation of my own ‘bodysystem’.
