Untamed Dimensions of the Feminine: A Visual Meditation on Skin and Landscape
I seek to inhabit a world without separation, a world where skin, leaves, light and shadow tell the same story: that of a being in transformation – vulnerable, but free.
Marie Le Moigne
Visual Artist
Through my work I explore feminine identity in its plural, unstable, and untamed dimensions. The body—often nude and unadorned—becomes a text to be read. I reflect on how women resonate with the world—not as objects, but as sensitive, active, living forces. Nature marks the skin; time engraves its presence.
“On the other side of the mirror”, I wander through enigmatic territories. My body merges with nature. It is no longer a subject, but an echo. It becomes translucent, multiple, both presence and absence. Through this series, I seek to inhabit a world without separation, a world where skin, leaves, light and shadow tell the same story: that of a being in transformation – vulnerable, but free.
I use analogue and digital photography as a way to explore the porous relationship between body and landscape, between memory and the present moment. The physical elements—the cold wind, the rough bark, the shifting light—interact with my skin and flesh, creating a dialogue where the body dissolves, re-emerges, and metamorphoses. These encounters trigger altered states of perception, a kind of trance, where the distinction between self and other, human and non-human, becomes fluid.
Bodily imprints appear, vanish, and dissolve into twilight landscapes. The naked body becomes fluid, anonymous, at times ghostlike. It no longer has a gender or social function; it is living matter, in motion, breathing with the elements. Its contours fade, the skin transforms into vegetation, stone, or cloud. It is no longer a self-portrait in the strict sense, but a world-body, traversed by light, seasons, and wind.
My inspiration comes from a fascination with states of psychological and emotional intensity—hysteria, delirium, melancholy—as well as from myths and archetypes of femininity and power, such as Medusa and Ophelia. I am interested in revealing the poetic force of what is often seen as fragility or disorder, turning it into a language of resilience and transformation.
I use analogue and digital photography as a way to explore the porous relationship between body and landscape, between memory and the present moment.
Marie Le Moigne
Visual Artist
Project: De l’autre côté du Miroir
I explore feminine identity in its plural, unstable, and untamed dimensions. The body—often nude and unadorned—becomes a text to be read. A text that resists, that sometimes screams. I reflect on how women resonate with the world—not as objects, but as sensitive, active, living forces. Nature marks the skin; time engraves its presence.
In my work, female figures are often tormented, melancholic, and traversed by invisible forces. They embody extreme psychic states, doublings, and fractures—but also a unique poetic strength.
I attempt to reinvent landscape as a mental space, as a surface where the body and memory leave their trace. These places become silent companions to my wanderings, and I try to reveal them differently: abstract, blurred, vibrant, and ambiguous.
In my work, female figures are often tormented, melancholic, and traversed by invisible forces. They embody extreme psychic states, doublings, and fractures—but also a unique poetic strength.
Marie Le Moigne
Visual Artist
Project: HYSTERIA
Words and Photography by Marie Le Moigne
Marie Le Moigne is a visual artist and a teacher of design and applied arts. Her artistic practice and work explore the dialogues that can be established between visual arts and literature. Additionally, she engages and reflects on societal issues such as feminism, the body, memory, etc., through publications in various art and design journals. In 2022, she exhibited her work at Paris 8 and at the Giardi Gallery during the Saint-Étienne Design Biennial. In 2023, her photographic series “Through the Looking-Glass I and II” is being exhibited at the contemporary art event “Les Rencontres d’Aubergine” in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon and then at Nuit Blanche in Paris (City Hall of the 19th arrondissement and Buttes Chaumont).
