Toulouse. An air of Alice in Wonderland at the squirrel area
It would be difficult to define the time in which Florian Mermin lives. A resolutely contemporary artist, he is inspired for this exhibition by a 19th century work entitled…Animated flowers. It evokes, in this early winter, the month of May and its flowering promising.
Let’s try space, then! The cartoon Alice in Wonderland makes her happy. The
scenography of its exhibitions reveals singular and dreamlike universes, in which the spectator is invited to wander, perhaps humming the song from the Walt Disney film, from which the exhibition borrows its title.
He finds himself crossing plant curtains, being guided through dirt roads
or having tea with a mysterious Mademoiselle Troy.
At the end of the walk, the visitor will have taken a strange journey where time and space have been somewhat disrupted. He will then know that he has been offered a visit to an interior garden.
This trip will take place through archive documents from the Jardin des Plantes in Toulouse, old postcards, pages from books on flowers, roses, etc.
This anchoring in the past dialogues with phantasmagorical pieces created for the exhibition. Thus, a bronze piece of two erect forearms transforming into tree branches, a giant ceramic rose, a small birdhouse covered with
violet sweets, hats covered with flower petals⁄ taking place at the heart of a stroll already initiated by a young woman, from the back, whom we follow for the duration of a short video… Her name is Alice.
Florian Mermin is a sculptor and lives in Paris. He works with volume and thinks of his installation in space as the heart of the creation of an exhibition.
Space squirrel foundation 3 place du Capitole Toulouse
Open Tuesday to Saturday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and the first Sunday of the month 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. 05 62 30 23 30
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