Adrien Missika

Adrien Missika (1981, Paris) lives and works between Berlin and Mexico City. Through a wide array of mediums, which range from photography and video, to sculpture and installations, Adrien Missika records various places around the world. Like an anachronic traveling painter, Missika blurs the line between documentation and fiction. He defies and plays with the populist imagery rooted in our collective memory and, with a humoristic turn, opens up new readings. His experimental approach to photography and video, maybe his most recurring mediums, results in the nomadic documentation of non-places, unstable landscapes, ruins or biotopes that evoke a strange futuristic nostalgia. Even the very passing of time becomes a formal technique, used by the artist to expand perception. Through his installations and sculptures, Missika evokes in the spectator visualizations and atmospheres that with their narratives, invert clichés and hierarchies of representations: this is the case of Ciudad Jardin, 2015 – a project developed for Hors les Murs during FIAC 2015 – where he installed a vertical garden displaying bad weeds only, plants that generally are destined to be eradicated of any terrain.

Submitted by Proyectos Monclova Gallery