Marie Quéau. Fury

How does one learn to fall, to jump out of a window, to break everything on cue ? In FURY, Marie Quéau presents bodies confronted with extreme states : stunt performers repeatedly thrown through windows, actors in trance within motion capture studios, freedivers in static immersion on the edge of drift, individuals giving free rein to their rage in a fury room. 

In a world where logic slips away, Marie Quéau turns to poetic figures of reversal : the fall as the underside of flight ; a body taking on the wound or accident in place of another; a state of trance converted into data by the machine; violence staged as a means of survival. 

Marie Quéau’s work 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 most intensely?

“The title FURY came from David Fincher’s film Alien 3 and the name of the planet ‘Fury 161’ where the story takes place. At the very beginning of this project, I imagined that the characters I photographed 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 from Roman mythology, often found on funerary steles.” — Marie Quéau