Finalists 2016
Florent Meng
Florent Meng is a photographer, graduated at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris and the Haute école d’art et de design de Genève. He is interested in populations and looks at the relationship between territories and the behaviour of communities. More specifically, his work is evaluating the ways in which attitudes and traditions of certain communities affect and forge the identity of a territory and a population. His common usage of photographic series and videos, on one side, and the use of fiction and documentary on the other, is a relational strategy: a tensioning process of materials of domination and celebration.
Sasabe Trails, 2016
Sasabe is a remote village in the Sonora Desert of Mexico. During the last ten years, it has been the last point of passage for migrants attempting to cross the border and enter in Arizona. Since 1990, more than six thousand corpses have been found in that area.
In Sasabe Trails, the human presence is logically absent, leaving the space to footprints and objects left during the journey. The latter are assembled under the form of cryptographies, as an archaeological metaphor. This ground statement creates congruence between the landscape and those who cross it.
www.florentmeng.com
In Sasabe Trails, the human presence is logically absent, leaving the space to footprints and objects left during the journey. The latter are assembled under the form of cryptographies, as an archaeological metaphor. This ground statement creates congruence between the landscape and those who cross it.
www.florentmeng.com
© Florent Meng