Frédérique MARIOT is a photographer and model born in Nantes in 1996. Influenced by her father’s passion for photography, she borrows his Olympus and starts practising her lens on landscapes.
In 2017, she meets a photographer who will make her pose in front of her lens for the first time. An encounter that will prove to be decisive.
In December of the same year, an exhibition at the Procé Manor in Nantes – a specific order from its manager, Alexandre Muller – seals their collaboration.
As a multidisciplinary and eclectic artist, Frédérique MARIOT also uses her writing and musical skills to strengthen the messages and topics she conveys in her photographs.
Her influences come from various artistic fields such as visual arts, architecture, sculpture, and music. She mainly draws her inspiration from the Renaissance period, Romanticism, Gothic and Baroque.
In 2021, she finally decides to go behind the camera and makes her first self-portaits. Her pictural aesthetics is full of contrasts between lights and shadows, like the chiaroscuro that can be found in Caravaggisti.
In January 2022, she becomes a professional photographer which allows her to sell her artworks and to welcome models in her artistic world.
During her photographic post-production, she escapes in a musical universe where composers such as Erik Satie and Hans Zimmer evolve side by side with bands such as The Ascending or Cult of Luna.
Dark, her projects reflect her own traumas.
