Nadège Mériau
Nadège Mériau
Mises en Scene
Mises en Scene evoke the fantastical world of magic realism and children’s imaginations where elements of dreams, fairy tales, folklore or mythology combine with the everyday. Nadège’s photographs are ambiguous narratives where innocence meets darkness, humour borders on the absurd and beauty is tinted with menace. Some of the photographs have been carefully staged with the help of animal handlers. However unexpected the scenes may be they were all enacted for real, with live animals leaving the outcome of the work less controllable and allowing ‘natural’ behaviour to become part of the underlying narrative.
Bio
Nadège is a French Photographer based in London who studied Photography at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art. She has exhibited widely throughout Europe including Kankaapaan Taldekouloun Gallery in Finland, the Tom Blau Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and more recently at the Rotterdam City Museum and the Newlyn Art Gallery in Cornwall. Nadège won the 2007 Rencontres d’Arles Photo Folio Review Prize and she was recently nominated for the 2008 Sovereign European Art Prize.
For more information - www.nadegemeriau.com
