Le Royaume is a set of photographs taken between 2017 and 2020 during two distinct events: a sporting event called Le Mud Day in France and the Bloco Da Lama in Paraty (Brazil) during Carnival. Every year in France, thousands of participants come together for a festive course punctuated by challenges in the silt, and re-enact the exit of men from prehistoric caves in Brazil.
Marie Quéau was born in 1985 in Choisy-le-Roi. She graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in 2009, and has lived and worked in Paris since her residency at the Cité internationale des arts in 2017. Sensitive to the documentary dimension of a subject, she nevertheless always departs from it to reveal all its ambiguities.
