Lives between Paris and Bages, Languedoc, France
She is represented by Binome Gallery, Paris
It is the floating contact between reality and imagination that has shaped Corinne Mercadier’s world since the 1980s. She practices photography and drawing with permanent mobility from one to the other across time and themes: currently three series of drawings, “Le Voyage intérieur” (The Inner Journey), “Éternel retour”(Eternal return), and a new one, “Rêves” (Dreams), alongside the current photographic series “La nuit magnétique” (The Magnetic Night) which combines photographs of real spaces and photographs of paintings on glass. CM thus uses this technique with aura effects for the third time, this time in digital work and not with the Polaroid SX70 as previously.
Until 2019, Corinne Mercadier produced photographic works which give an important place to dance and architecture. She drew and wrote in work notebooks, used models, first family and friends, then dancers or actors. Natural light and existing sets are a constant, whether in desert areas for the “Solo” series in 2012 or on remarkable roofs like those of the Paris Observatory or Chambord Castle in 2016 for the series “Le ciel commence ici” (Here Begins The Sky). She makes the costumes and sculptures intended to be thrown during photoshoots.
She worked with analogic Leica and Polaroid SX70 until 2008, then turned to digital after exploring various so-called “poor” photographic practices.
Some dates :
2024 "In the Night", group show, SAMoCA, Riyadh, Saudi; Art Rotterdam and Art Paris Fair, booths Galerie Binome; 2023 "Night Star", La chambre claire Galerie, Douarnenez, 2023 Solo show Drawing Now; Solo show La chambre claire Galerie, Douarnenez, France
2022 Solo show Galerie Binome, Paris
"Wind", Muma, Le Havre, France
2021 Ten years of the Prize Residency for Photography of the Fondation des Treilles, Toulon
2020 "Pandora's Box", Réattu Museum, Arles, France
2019 "Polaroids and drawings", Gallery Le Salon H, Paris
2018 "Satellites", retrospective during the Meetings of Young International Photography, Niort, France
2017 "The Journey", L'Avenue, Shanghai, China
"An infinite terminal" festival "Les photographiques" Le Mans, France
"Lontano", seventeen years of photography and drawings at the Abbey of Jumièges, France
2016 "Dream Images", Espace Leica Paris
Photographic conversations for Olympus, RIP, Arles, France
"Here Begins the Sky" Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris
2015 Festival "Planche Contact(s)", Deauville, France
2014 "Wicked Ggravity", Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
2013 Finalist of the Academy of Fine Arts Marc Ladreit de La Charrière Prize
2006 and 2008 Alan Klotz Gallery, New York
2004 Fotofest, Houston, Texas
2003 "La Suite d’Arles", carte blanche from the Musée Reattu and the French Ministry of Culture, Arles
2002, "Le Mois de la Photo à Paris", Galerie Les filles du Ccalvaire, Paris
2001, Altadis Prize, Durand-Dessert Gallery, Paris and Juana de Aizpuru Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Her work is found in the collections of the Musée de l'Élysée, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, the FNAC, the BNF, Neuflize OBC, Polaroid Corporation.
She has published most of her books at Editions Filigranes, "Where Ddoes Tthe Ssky Bbegin?", "Dreaming Journal", a monograph, and "Devant un champ obscur".
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She is represented by Binome Gallery, Paris
It is the floating contact between reality and imagination that has shaped Corinne Mercadier’s world since the 1980s. She practices photography and drawing with permanent mobility from one to the other across time and themes: currently three series of drawings, “Le Voyage intérieur” (The Inner Journey), “Éternel retour”(Eternal return), and a new one, “Rêves” (Dreams), alongside the current photographic series “La nuit magnétique” (The Magnetic Night) which combines photographs of real spaces and photographs of paintings on glass. CM thus uses this technique with aura effects for the third time, this time in digital work and not with the Polaroid SX70 as previously.
Until 2019, Corinne Mercadier produced photographic works which give an important place to dance and architecture. She drew and wrote in work notebooks, used models, first family and friends, then dancers or actors. Natural light and existing sets are a constant, whether in desert areas for the “Solo” series in 2012 or on remarkable roofs like those of the Paris Observatory or Chambord Castle in 2016 for the series “Le ciel commence ici” (Here Begins The Sky). She makes the costumes and sculptures intended to be thrown during photoshoots.
She worked with analogic Leica and Polaroid SX70 until 2008, then turned to digital after exploring various so-called “poor” photographic practices.
Some dates :
2024 "In the Night", group show, SAMoCA, Riyadh, Saudi; Art Rotterdam and Art Paris Fair, booths Galerie Binome; 2023 "Night Star", La chambre claire Galerie, Douarnenez, 2023 Solo show Drawing Now; Solo show La chambre claire Galerie, Douarnenez, France
2022 Solo show Galerie Binome, Paris
"Wind", Muma, Le Havre, France
2021 Ten years of the Prize Residency for Photography of the Fondation des Treilles, Toulon
2020 "Pandora's Box", Réattu Museum, Arles, France
2019 "Polaroids and drawings", Gallery Le Salon H, Paris
2018 "Satellites", retrospective during the Meetings of Young International Photography, Niort, France
2017 "The Journey", L'Avenue, Shanghai, China
"An infinite terminal" festival "Les photographiques" Le Mans, France
"Lontano", seventeen years of photography and drawings at the Abbey of Jumièges, France
2016 "Dream Images", Espace Leica Paris
Photographic conversations for Olympus, RIP, Arles, France
"Here Begins the Sky" Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris
2015 Festival "Planche Contact(s)", Deauville, France
2014 "Wicked Ggravity", Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
2013 Finalist of the Academy of Fine Arts Marc Ladreit de La Charrière Prize
2006 and 2008 Alan Klotz Gallery, New York
2004 Fotofest, Houston, Texas
2003 "La Suite d’Arles", carte blanche from the Musée Reattu and the French Ministry of Culture, Arles
2002, "Le Mois de la Photo à Paris", Galerie Les filles du Ccalvaire, Paris
2001, Altadis Prize, Durand-Dessert Gallery, Paris and Juana de Aizpuru Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Her work is found in the collections of the Musée de l'Élysée, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, the FNAC, the BNF, Neuflize OBC, Polaroid Corporation.
She has published most of her books at Editions Filigranes, "Where Ddoes Tthe Ssky Bbegin?", "Dreaming Journal", a monograph, and "Devant un champ obscur".
Upload the complete CV (EN version)
