With productive writings, productive structures and productive landscapes, Nicolas Floc’h has developed research around the representation of environments and their use and transformation, whether terrestrial or marine, atmospheric or polar. Interactions between ecosystems, from within the “ocean machine”, enable him to tackle issues of habitat, landscapes, biodiversity, climate, and productivity, making use of simple concepts: living, feeding, exchanging. From his explorations of the submerged parts of the various maritime faces of the French coastline, Nicolas Floc’h reveals these landscapes and puts them into perspective in a global way in his different projects. Initium Maris (2018-2021) brings us up close to underwater landscapes and their transformation in the west between Saint-Malo and Saint-Nazaire as well as in Japan. The Colour of the Water (2016-2021) immerses us in the ocean, the history of art and life from the Côte-Nord out to several oceans. In the south, Invisible (2018-2020) plunges us into a peri-urban environment in the Mediterranean. The exhibition offers a new vision of the underwater environment.
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Digital content :
- (French version) Discover the podcasts Ce monde qui nous inspire created as part of the exhibition, part of the Sonographie Marseillaise project.
- (French version) Educational file of the exhibition.
- (French version) Exhibition room sheet.
- Written interview between Nicolas Floc’h and Pascal Neveux.
- Video interview between Nicolas Floc’h and Pascal Neveux at the FRAC: Video 1, Video 2, Video 3.
- Video of Nicolas Floc’h at sea.
A proposition by Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
Curated by Pascal Neveux.
In partnership with the Parc national des Calanques, the Fondation Camargo, the Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers – Institut Pythéas (Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD) for the project Invisible, with the support of the Ministère de la culture, the Préfecture des Bouches-du-Rhône, the Conseil départemental des Bouches-du-Rhône et the Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso, Artconnexion, the Fondation de France, the Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, the Université de Lille, the CNRS, UMR 8187 – LOG – Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences, the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle – Concarneau, Ifremer for the projects Initium Maris and Couleur de l’eau.
With Marfret and Grand Port Maritime de Marseille‘s patronage.
As part of the community engagement around the hosting of the IUCN World Congress, to be held in Marseille from 7 to 15 January 2021 and VIVANT, a Cultural Season for Biodiversity on the occasion of the IUCN World Conservation Congress.
