The exhibition “ Invisible Seas” » brings together the works of Maude Arsenault , Manon Lanjouère , Aurore de la Morinerie and Laure Winants , four artists whose hybrid practices – between photography, experimentation, plastic gesture, painting – question, each in their own way, the unsuspected territories of the sea: memory, ecology, matter, mutations. Together, they explore these shifting and infinite imaginaries, at the crossroads of the sensitive, the societal and the political, where the visible dissolves into the depth of waters and symbols.
Through her intimate and feminist approach, Maude Arsenault draws a parallel between the sea and the female body. Melding, posing, and confronting her body with the coastlines , Arsenault explores the parallels between coastal erosion and the changes in women's bodies in the face of biological, social, and climatic constraints. Her work, which combines photography, collage, sculpture, and performance, makes visible the impermanence of bodies and the invisible burden they bear in a rapidly changing world.
Clay Hand, Photographic giclée print on Hahnemühle photo rag 308 g, 2024. From the artist's performance with clay, documented in photography, My Cliff Body , 2024
© Maude Arsenault
Faced with this sensory and political approach to the body, Manon Lanjouère constructs a world that is at once dreamlike, critical and political. Her Paysages Sensibles are a continuation of her series Les Particules , revealing imagined underwater worlds where fiction becomes a tool of ecological resistance . By shifting between the microscopic invisible and fantasized landscapes, constructed from scratch through terrestrial references, she questions our ability to see what is threatened and asks: how can we protect a world that we cannot see?
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Sensitive Landscape #3, 16 Cyanotypes 20 x 25cm, 80 x 100 cm
© Manon Lanjouère
Offering an equally sensitive approach to the marine imagination, Aurore de la Morinerie deploys the sea in a profusion of experiments around the material. Striving to render a sensation rather than a real rendering, she uses tools, supports, superpositions and colors to create unique monotypes reflecting the richness and diversity of underwater flora and fauna.
Untitled , Original monotypes on Japanese paper, diptych, 2020
©Aurore de la Morinerie
Laure Winants , for her part, seeks in her series Fossils of the Future to make visible the silent traces of human pollution. Between art and science, she collects data from the seabed that she transforms into sensitive images using experimental photographic processes such as chemigrams or photograms. These chemical imprints are poetic maps that reflect the ongoing environmental degradation, revealing the effects of acidification, pesticides or micro-pollutants. Combining scientific protocol with the magic of chance, she creates works where the elements react directly with the paper, letting the material speak for itself.
Fossils of the Future, 2025
© Laure Winants
“ Invisible Seas” » is an exhibition firmly anchored in the contemporary and focused on the challenges of tomorrow, which we present here through these four feminine perspectives. For them, water becomes a sensitive surface, conducive to reflecting the transformations of our world and evoking the challenges of the future. Through their respective approaches, they weave links between the metamorphoses of life and present and future struggles.