The dream is «a mirage of the thought», a volatile substance from
which Corinne Mercadier extracts a register of experiences. Memories emerge, escaping representation, the artist materializes them at the
end of multiple arrangements, infiltrating the furniture of reality by the artifices of the image which is the place of their appearance. Elements of architecture borrowed from museum interiors devoid of human presence dramatize the apparitions. These phantasmagorical visions seem to evolve in the palaces of memory that associate a memory with a place to better preserve it: «Cloud huddled in a parallelepiped; Smoke escaping from the top of a high door; Draught that sucks a cloud behind a door; Pale smoke rotating in a polyhedron» writes the artist in her journal. The frames of the mirrors, the doorways, the corners of the walls, all that is on edge, a division and an intersection contains these visions and puts them in tension. Corinne Mercadier thus composes a dramaturgy made of contradictory movements that call to each other, between finite and infinite, real and imaginary, gravity and lightness, memory and forgetting.
Marguerite Pilven, curator and art critic member AICA
[text] Corinne Mercadier exhibition Galerie Binome, Paris, 2022
Work references :
Collections
AM Art Films (FR), Jacques & Evelyne Deret (FR)
Exhibitions
O night O Eye, SAMoCA Saudi Arabian Museum of Contemporary Art,
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2024
Météorologiques, MuMa Musée d’Art Moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, 2022
Le vent, cela qui ne peut être peint, MuMa Musée d’Art Moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, 2022
Corinne Mercadier, Galerie Binome, Paris, 2022
Publication
Le vent, cela qui ne peut être peint, exhibition, Octopus editions, 2022
Text
Corinne Mercadier, par Béatrice Andrieux, 2022