La Maison d’Art Bernard Anthonioz in Nogent-sur-Marne, France, and the Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire in Paris have joined forces to reflect on the work of Corinne Mercadier at a pivotal time in her career. Indeed, at the very moment when a first retrospective of her work, which toured France from 2006 to 2012 and resulted in a sizeable monograph published by Editions Filigranes, Mercadier’s visual language has seen a radical change, as she confronts the disappearance of techniques she had relied upon until now, and which gave her photographs a singular rendering.

In fact, Solo and Black Screen, two news series on view at the gallery as part of the Réel Ré-enchanté section of the Mois de la Photo, differ from her previous works (which used a complex double Polaroid shot) through a switch to digital film. Giving these new series, a deep modification as much in the way of taking pictures as in her esthetic .

In parallel to this exhibition, another one at La Maison d’Art Bernard Anthonioz focuses on Mercadier’s current work. Le Grain du temps examines how the construction a work, over time, forges new approaches to the same preoccupations: light and shadow, theatricality and dance, space and perspective—but also the incarnation of the instant in a form, paintings and flying sculptures, and the presence of the body, often undefined, almost an essence.

Read the full version of this article on the French version of Le Journal.

Exhibitions :

Devant un champ obscur - Corinne Mercadier
In part of Le Mois de la Photo à Paris 2012
From October 30th to December 1st, 2012
Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire
17 Rue des Filles du Calvaire
75003 Paris - France
Tél. +33 (01 42 74 47 05

Le Grain du temps - Corinne Mercadier
Un parcours rétrospectif – oeuvres de 1992 à 2012
From November 7th to December 20th, 2012
Maison d’Art Bernard Anthonioz
16 rue Charles VII
94130 Nogent-sur Marne - France
Tél. +33 (01 48 71 90 07

And :

Selon le mystère des choses - Corinne Mercadier
From December 7th, 2012 to March 15th, 2013
Musée de l’Image
42 Quai de Dogneville
88000 Épinal - France
Tél. +33 (03 29 34 21 87

Corinne Mercadier
From January 11th to March 10th, 2013
Arsenal,
3 avenue Ney
57000 Metz - France
Tél. +33 (0)3 87 39 92 00

Publication :

Devant un champ obscur - Corinne Mercadier
Text by Charles-Arthur Boyer
Editions Filigranes
November 2012
Collection : Hors Collection
Anglish / French
ISBN 13 : 978-2-35046-263-9
Format : 235 x 220
84 pages
25 €