On January 7, 2019, Mendia Echeverria entered the Bois de Vincennes in Paris for the first time accompanied by a map, a camera and a plan. Its objective, to clarify the mysteries that surround Le Gran Rocher, a 65-meter-high artificial and hollow rock built in 1934 in the middle of the park. Four months later, Mendia came out with this collection of images, a cartography of that time and that place.
This book is the result of a theoretical and visual reflection on the photographic construction of memory; an artistic investigation that allows us to obtain a trace, both past and present, of the photographed place. The author introduces us to a world where the natural and the artificial coexist in a paradoxical way, proposing a journey through space and time, and generating a true map in which the real -the forest- and the simulacrum -the rock- they form an inseparable whole, a reflection of the contemporary world.
22 x 26.5cm
