ÉLODIE MERLAND, native of northern France, graduated from Higher School of Art of Toulon and has exhibited internationally, in France, United-Kingdom and Belgium. By using various experimental methods to spark meetings, drifting, inviting, she goes on the hunt for possible places to take possession for a certain moment in time and to offer these spaces a new vision for contemplation, pointing out details and anecdotes. Her approach sometimes has a conceptual-romantic appearance with an invitation to personally confront reality: the truth, the trivial, the insignificant, the uninteresting, the derisory. This requires the spectator to be attentive enough, to feel the time passing, to listen to the silence and to accept the waiting moment. Poetically and not without humour, using photography, video, sound, installation, performance and especially text through the languages, she presents written works followed by gestures. The results usually take the form of traces, passages through life or evidence of creation.
WEBSITE: elodiemerland.net INSTAGRAM: @elodie_merland Platform Art Projects
My approach, sometimes romantic-conceptual, is an invitation to confront reality. It questions our relationship to others as well as to space, with the intention of coming to affect the sensitivity and the emotions of each one by relating with the memory and the lived.
With a poetic and melancholic appearance, my words and my visuals require the viewer to be aware as well as listening to the silence. Among other things, this can take shape simply with chalk or embedded in concrete or steel.
Élodie Merland
