“Immersed in an environment that he generally maintains 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 urban expansion, but nevertheless evokes the urbanization and the emergence of buildings represented by a staging of books or checkered earthenware tiles. In the spaces photographed natural elements remain: a cascade of water, arid vegetation, bamboos, trees but the vegetation is cut by a road become a no man’s land covered with signs and objects abandoned, bamboos are sectioned , The trees are dried or masked by installations suggesting their disappearance. If Never Mind’s stake is to state and denounce the dislocation of a world, the great skill of André Mérian is to signify its collapse without exposing its ruin.
Isabelle Tessier