Artist & photographer · Marseille

Where the city
meets the land

Photographs of places in transition
Traces of what was, signs of what comes next

Urban landscape — wetland and housing From L’exemple du Sud

Selected project, 2014–2019

L’exemple du Sud

Reading the landscape
Looking at what we build

A photographic dialogue between France and Mexico. Construction sites, inhabited edges and changing terrains reveal the negotiations between people and their environment.

Four further photographs from a body of 72

  1. Stones, concrete, radio antennas 2017
  2. Playgrounds (palm trees, fence) 2015
  3. Urban landscape — study
  4. Peri-urban area (coal, geological fold), island 2016

About the artist

A way of looking
A way of questioning

Mezli Vega Osorno is a French-Mexican artist and researcher based in Marseille

Her photographic practice explores how social and economic forces shape the places we inhabit. Between documentary observation and constructed images, her work asks us to look again at the familiar.

She received her doctorate in photography from ENSP and Aix-Marseille University in 2020. Her work has been exhibited in France, Mexico, Germany and beyond.

Practice
Photography, painting, performance

Collect & connect

Live with art

For photographic editions, paintings, exhibition enquiries or a conversation about the work

mezli.vega@gmail.com

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