MARINE LANIER

Born in Valence in 1981, Marine Lanier lives and works between Crest and Lyon. She is represented by Jörg Brockmann Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland. After geography, letters and cinema studies, Marine Lanier graduated from National Superior Photography School in 2007. 

Marine Lanier exhibits her work in France and abroad. In 2016, she publishes a monography with Poursuite éditions, “Our fires belong to us”, accompanied by a text from the writer Emmanuelle Pagano. In 2022, a new monography will be published with the same editor, “Wolf Sun”.

Coming from a horticulturists and sailors family, her research turns around questions of the living, clans structures, link between adventure’s call. Her approach raises from documentary tales or “magic surrealism”. She explores shady places, unattainable, where danger and mystery glide : old  abandoned nursery of his father, a dormant volcano, the waves of a dam, the geology of a land upset by conflicts and earthquakes in Armenia, a garden-laboratory at the foot of a glacier on the plot of the epic of Hannibal in the Alps.

The marginal characters and the irrational universe fascinate her, for several years she has photographed male communities such as pruners and gardeners; or even two brothers, sort of wolf-children, living in autarky above an inverted relief in Ardèche; the itinerary of her great-grandfather Captain of the ship through the prism of sailor superstitions; smugglers and other deserters at the Italian border; a group of male prisoners who together build a coded language.

The question of narrative and metamorphosis underlies all of her work, it’s often the invention of an individual destiny split within the rituals of a group. Her plastic approach is sensory, immersive, sometimes hallucinating. She often uses the light of the eclipse, symbols, monochromes close to the color of dreams, to amazement, which transport us towards a reversal of the values ​​of this world.