"Am I imitating in my drawings the appearance of my photographs? There are many layers between the landscape seen, loved and traveled through, and the photograph, then the drawing. It gives me great pleasure to see fragments of scattered images brought together under a light that holds them together.
It’s the light and the point of view that turn these scattered notes into a score. Coherent, but according to the rules of dream, not reality: we recognize, in the grip of a lasting abandon. But at the same time, we know that there is no exact reference to what we see.
In any case, there are also certain drawings, more towards the beginning of La chambre de Mercure, that didn’t start with a photograph.
They began by connecting with other, sometimes older drawings. Or nothing. Objects I’d made and thrown into my shots. Or nothing at all."
Corinne Mercadier
[excerpt] Journal du Voyage intérieur, 2021
Work references :
Exhibitions
O night O Eye, SAMoCA Saudi Arabian Museum of Contemporary Art, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2024