Artist Statement
"Playing formally on the articulation of stasis and movement, horizontal-vertical, form-formless, unveiled-veiled, "Figure Eight in Flight" and other works by Corinne Mercadier are clearly all variations on the porosity between the visible and the invisible. They are metaphors illustrating the fluid relation of real to fiction, profane to sacred, known to unknown and life to death. Like any other individual, the artist turns out to be caught, tensed between these dualities, constantly forced to reassess her own presence in the world."
Armelle Canitrot
Process Statement
Corinne Mercadier uses SX 70 Polaroid film until 2008, from which she makes print enlargements. Since 2000, she has been making sculptures that are meant to be thrown and are then photographed, including Une fois et pas plus [Once and no more], 2000-2002, La Suite d'Arles, 2003, Figure Eight in Flight, 2006, and Long Distance, 2005-2007.
She is now preparing two series, all digital, with new sculptures and mise-en-scenes, and still works on the Black Screen Drawings series.