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MERCEDES PARODI STUDIO
IMAGERY
Fifteen years photographing light in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles
channeled into large-scale artworks centred on the human condition
(click on images in each section for more information)
'THE VERSAILLES MYTHOLOGY COLLECTION'
This extensive series presents some of the palace’s mythological sculptures layered into protean light imagery.
It was inspired by the intense effect of the Night Fountains Show on the artist’s sensorial perception of the highly illuminated nocturnal environment.
Through the elevatory energy of transformative light, the legends and representations of the statuary, she seeks to echo her sensing of universal order, powerful invisible forces and interconnectedness.
'YOU WILL ALWAYS BE'
This 10-image automatism series was created spontaneously through hand-driven random digital
re-formation of the entire pixel content of a symmetried abstraction of water in fusion with light captured at Apollo's Fountain.
The creative process, likened to the automatic drawings of André Masson, revealed the artist's subconscious thoughts relating to human consciousness and life after death, triggered during early adolescence by the death of her maternal grandmother, and that resurfaced after the more recent death of her own mother.
In response to the emotional and psychological challenges of physical demise, the series and associated compositions present an empathetic vision of infinite energetic existence.
VISION AND MINDSET TRANSITIONS
In these compositions abstractions of light are layered together to evoke states of being and transition from one state of mind to another.
The artworks were inspired by reflection on the self-empowerment of the Sun King, the benefits of positive, serene, focused mindset, increased contemporary media coverage of mental health, the impact of social media on self-confidence and image and anxieties fueled by geo-political instability.
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