Photographer's Profile

Alexandra Mercurio

France

Born in 1978 in the south of France and graduated from the Superior School of Art and Design of Toulon Provence Méditerranée, Alexandra considers herself a narrative photographer. She has always practiced dance and in her photographic work, her body is her means of expression and writing. She stages herself in photo-performances that she calls “domestic choreography” proposing, with humor and irony, her personal vision of the world. A world where objects take power and decide to transform for a moment the most banal acts of everyday life. Peace of life between reality and fiction sometimes strange, pathetic or absurd. It's indeed in the banality of our daily actions that she draws her inspirations before giving a new perception. At the crossroads of an Alice who is looking for herself and a Buster Keaton who is trying to survive, she imagines a world where all proportions are no longer kept, where objects struggle to keep their own role or take over in a formidable way. In this world, there is no order, everything is upside down, inverted, rushed, enlarged or diminished. Isn't this, basically, the reflection of a certain reality? The images tell another story, question “a before” and “an after” of the photographic scene without being able to define them. An "in-between" suspended in time that shakes up our usual codes and redefines them.