Biography
Ariane's work is inspired by subject matters that are psychologically rooted – identity, memory, familial relationships – and often explores themes of nurture and femininity, origin and mortality, framed against a fascination with the fine line between the beautiful and the grotesque. Ariane photographs intuitively, responding to the instinctive impulses of the unconscious and photographing that which she gravitates towards with inexplicable force. Working in this way she has developed a visual vocabulary of the Symbolic; a means of communication that allows her to access and manifest the very basic, fundamental aspects of the human psyche. Whether documenting a person, relationship, place or a moment, Ariane’s images sensitively render atmosphere; always striving to capture and contain the fleeting, the transient and the ineffable.
