After training in photography at La Cambre in Brussels and then at the École des Gobelins in Paris, in 2014 Dorothée Murail published numerous photographic projects that appeared in the international press (Vogue US, Harper's Bazaar), and independent (Boycott). She collaborates with many designers such as Vera Wang or Martin Margiela.

Fashion photography allows her to express artistic freedom, playing with identities in fictional worlds. She then became a laureate of the FoRTE grant (regional fund for emerging talents).

In 2015, she followed her desire to capture a subject in motion and directed her first video for the American magazine Flaunt in collaboration with the artist Stromae. She then partnered with Romain Leblanc, R&D, shooting music videos of several artists from the Warner label. In 2019, the duo collaborated with the choreographer Clément Gyselinck.

Working in the video medium seeded an idea for the personal project that would become AKA, which she started writing in 2017.

After traveling to Japan in 2018, the form of the project crystalizes through her meeting with the butoh dancer Sachiko Ishikawa and Azadi Productions.

Dorothée Murail now lives in Japan, this immersion continues to nourish her vision of AKA. It also inspired her to create a photographic project "Redscale", evoking the concepts of honne and tatemae, strongly rooted in Japanese culture. The models for this project are two butoh dancers from the international company Sankai Juku.

In 2021, she had the opportunity of working with Joe Hisaishi, the renowned composer of Miyazaki's animated movies, when he chose her to direct a film that will feature his latest musical composition “Ashitaka and San”.

This year, she starts working with the French brand Cartier and honing the concept for an installation offering an immersive experience of her film AKA.

She is also in the writing process for the next project ...