NEVER MIND

"Immersed in an environment that he generally keeps at a distance, André Mérian gives a representation of the landscape through a reading of architecture and the environment reduced to a set of signs and objects. Never Mind goes beyond the observation of urban expansion but no less evokes urbanization and the emergence of buildings represented by a staging of books or by checkerboard earthenware tiles. In the photographed spaces, elements natural remains: a waterfall, arid vegetation, bamboos, trees but the vegetation is cut by a road which has become a no man's land covered with signs and abandoned objects, the bamboos are cut, the trees are dried up or hidden by installations suggesting their disappearance. If the challenge of Never Mind is to state and denounce the dislocation of a world, André Mérian's great skill is to signify its collapse without exposing its ruin." Isabelle Tessier