“Le spleen de Paris” (2017-2018)

“Le spleen de Paris”
Interchangeable photographs
Pigment prints on Dibond, 800×100 cm, 2018

With Le Spleen de Paris, Mirial introduces a major shift in his practice. The artist moves away from “posed” bodies to explore those, more elusive, of reality. In the Parisian metro, he captures strangers absorbed in the rhythm of the city, then draws them into his inner universe.

These silhouettes, weary, emptied, sometimes consumed by technology become fragments of a single abyss: that of a humanity in transit, oscillating between apparition and erasure. A fragile, spectral beauty emerges.

The series takes the form of interchangeable panels, conceived as juxtaposed carriages. Once assembled, these images form a modular work of approximately eight meters, designed to reconfigure itself according to the space like a train whose narrative is reinvented with each arrangement.