Renée Lorie captures an enigmatic world full of sharp contrasts, light and shadow, permeated by an undefined feeling of disorientation. Even not all images are taken at night, she chose 'Noctuary' as a titel for her first book: a term that well describes the atmosphere of her photographs, the mystery and obscurity pervading her visual imagery. The surface of the flat images seems to have an almost haptic quality, as if spectators were able to feel with the tip of their fingers the real textures, feathers, hair, skins, dresses, plants, water.
— Rachele Ceccarelli for the magazine Corpo Opaco, Montpellier, FR
In this personal work, a lot of images were made during the end of a period of loss. Close beloved ones that passed away. When you go through this intens process of letting go, looking back, trying to hold on forever is a strong compulsion. You want to latch onto these past certainties, in order to avoid the confrontation of constant change and dissociation, process unique to life. Photography serves as a consolation to impossibly embrace what was.
— in an interview with Posture Editions, Ghent, BE