There must be a stargate, hidden between some stacks in the middle of the sea, which leads to extraterrestrial landscapes, where people live perpetually backlit, objects do not have the color with which we remember them on earth and the sky is a mystery, as before an apocalypse.
This alternative plan is painted by Marie Larrivé, a French painter and illustrator who has experimented with narrative languages, animating characters immersed in tall and threatening plants, while watching volcanoes erupt from afar, and fiery sunsets.

The acrylics and watercolors with irregular fields recall Hopper’s stillness, with a different symbolic sense of nature, more endangered, more mysterious. The nature described by Marie Larrivé has secrets that she seems to share only with the characters in her illustrations, in an atmosphere of suspension and ambush in which the figures are isolated and suspicious.

Noir-Soleil, the artist’s latest animated movie, also uses the mystery and disquiet of the landscape to tell a family story in which there are voluntary narrative gaps that a father and daughter do not share with each other, creating a tension that is as unreal as it is unjustified. The Gulf of Naples and the stacks contrast with a sea that looks like primordial soup, blue, then pink and atomic green. The nature Marie Larrivé describes has secrets, but her drawings are beautiful.