Finalist 2016
Florent Meng
Florent Meng is a photographer, he graduated from 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 evaluates 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: he puts in relation 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 Arizona. Since 1990, more than six thousand corpses have been found in that area.
In Sasabe Trails, the human presence is logically absent, leaving space only to footprints and objects left during migrant journeys. 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 space only to footprints and objects left during migrant journeys. 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