Florian Mermin

Born in 1991 in Longjumeau, France. Florian Mermin lives and works in Paris, France.

Drawing on cinematic, literary, and philosophical references, from Jean Cocteau to Edgar Allan Poe and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Florian Mermin's work seeks to reconcile reality and imagination, the animate and the inanimate, the interior and the exterior. His work questions notions of landscape, memory, fragility, and disappearance, and explores the exhibition medium as a sensory and narrative experience while simultaneously delving into the plastic and poetic possibilities of the living.

Florian Mermin's aesthetic evokes a Freudian "uncanny," where beauty and formlessness, the domestic and the unknown, engage in a dialogue. His works are like masks, totems, or monuments to vanished creatures. Recently, his work has been exhibited in France at the Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval in Hauterives, the Domaine de Fontainebleau, the 17th Lyon Biennale, and the International Perfume Museum in Grasse, as well as internationally in Rome and Venice, Italy.