Rouvrir le monde with Andréa Mella Diaz

Born in Chile in 1966, André Mella Diaz lives and works between France and the South American continent. For about ten years, the photographer-visual artist has focused her work on the representation of terrestrial and marine habitats. This research has led to a documentary photographic prodcution that uses ‘primitive’ processes to evoke global change and complex phenomena caused by human intervention on the environment.

Host structure: Accueil de loisirs des Cabrières (Mougins)
The project: The pinhole camera is the first simple step in fixing the world before chemistry and its silver halide emulsions. Revealing images using sunlight allows for a return to the elementary laws of matter and time. Observing to personally and poetically transcribe the urban landscape; captivating through astonishment; discovering one’s urban geography and walking to find it – Andréa Mella Diaz’s project invites the children of the Mougins leisure center into the heart of fixed image creation.

Rouvrir le monde – Un été culturel, a DRAC PACA initiative.