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FLORIAN MERMIN

 

CV

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"In Florian Mermin’s immersive installations, the boundary between inner and outer is blurred : the inner opens onto the eye of the public and visitor. At first intimate, it then becomes shared : we enter the artist’s consciousness, and he allows us into his inner-world. Traditionnaly, the garden is an enclosed place. In the artist’s installations, the garden is seen as a creation of the mind, a mental projection. Creating spaces where many different formats and materials are accumulated, he simultaneously works with ceramic, wrought iron, found objects, as well as natural and artificial plants, living and dead alike…
In his own very personal way, the artist revisits garden furniture by appropriating it, covering the ground with soil and the walls with pale green. Here, human beings have disappeared but they are never far away, present in different forms by way of anthropomorphic sculptures whish come to worry visitors. Florian Mermin’s aesthetics stem from an « uncanniness » dear to Freud, where the beautiful and shapeless, the domestic and the unknown, are in dialogue. His works are masks, totems, and monuments to varnished creatures. His œuvre is an ode to nature – a poisonous, dangerous nature – which gives, but may also take back."

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Daria de Beauvais

Senior Curator - Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR

22,48 m², 43 rue de la Commune de Paris / Komunuma, 93230 ROMAINVILLE, France, +33(0)981917217, contact(at)2248m2.com, Wed.-Sat., 10 am - 6 pm

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