Flowers for daddy
France
2013
“Flower for daddy” starts 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 pass by seem so unreal. Beautiful flowers pile up around the body. So many tokens of love for this man, her beloved daddy. The artist who has always loved flowers, ends up questioning what they represent: life? Death? The confusion leads Marie to take picture in order to analyze them, dismantle them and accept what they tell about life, in its most beautiful and hardest aspects.
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About the artist
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 Gobeins of Paris, her professional research go towards the Parisian retouch agencies. She then accumulates various experiences, culinary photography, graphic projects, graphic production. She has also worked on many projects about the still life and the object, 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 a products photographer.
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