Marie Dorveaux

My approach is concretized by the culmination and the knowledge of an emotion: Empathy, which is the engine of my pictorial research and a vision of the world of sharing spaces, respect for individuals and species: be it human or non-human but also of the plant species: I am biocentric (term which means humanist and animalist) and vegan. Through my artistic work, I wish to bring a sensitivity and a different look to what surrounds us, and to have a non-utilitarian approach, in the economic sense of the term, as invented by Joseph Bentham ("utilitarianism") who ultimately leads to massive destruction of endangered species, and more specifically of our biodiversity. 

In my work, I focus on others of ourselves: Non-human animals. My lighting and my lighting aims to be disturbing, dissonant, and perhaps shocking, but it is an inner expression, a focus, like an obsession to want to raise awareness on our invasive, domineering and anarchic way of exploiting all the territories of this planet without measuring the consequences in the near future, even in a certain present, in this regard, I have an admiration for the primatologist Jane Goodall, who is also an optimistic and enlightened ecologist.