Mendia Echeverria

Cartographie Éphémère | On January 7, 2019, I entered the Bois de Vincennes for the first time and discovered Le Grand Rocher. Memory, footprint, nature and landscape are the concepts that give meaning to this book. All of them surround the forest, mixing time and space articulated around a rock that limits the empty space and returns it converted into changing and suggestive images of parallel realities. The rock stands almost omnipresent throughout the entire forest, above the urban landscape and that delimited by the Bois de Vincennes itself.

The Bois de Vincennes and the Grand Rocher dialogue until they meet, establishing a theoretical and visual reflection on the social and photographic construction of memory. One of the main objectives of the research is to obtain and form a trace, both past and current, of the photographed place, which is constantly evolving. The set of images already processed in their final form allows an attempt to recover the memory of physical space, as well as the formation of an almost sensory imprint that is modified by the passage of time. www.mendiaecheverria.com