Cette Mer qui nous entoure
Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain•Oct 17, 2025 — Jan 03, 2026
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“An ocean must be a story pieced together from many sources and containing whole chapters the details of which we can only imagine,” wrote Rachel Carson in The Sea Around Us (1951), translated into French as Cette mer qui nous entoure. In her book, this American biologist combined science and poetry to describe the abundant life of the various levels of the ocean, from the icy darkness of the depths to the power of the tides and currents. She also reminded us that the ocean’s origin, two billion years ago, was not witnessed by any human being, yet is nevertheless the source of our own existence. To Carson, the sea is both a process far beyond the human scale and a place deeply entwined with our imagination.
The exhibition Cette Mer qui nous entoure [The Sea Around Us] is set in this divide, between invisibility and imagination, between the immensity of natural phenomena and the fragility of our human gaze. First…
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Cette Mer qui nous entoure
Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain•Oct 17, 2025 — Jan 03, 2026
Press Release
“An ocean must be a story pieced together from many sources and containing whole chapters the details of which we can only imagine,” wrote Rachel Carson in The Sea Around Us (1951), translated into French as Cette mer qui nous entoure. In her book, this American biologist combined science and poetry to describe the abundant life of the various levels of the ocean, from the icy darkness of the depths to the power of the tides and currents. She also reminded us that the ocean’s origin, two billion years ago, was not witnessed by any human being, yet is nevertheless the source of our own existence. To Carson, the sea is both a process far beyond the human scale and a place deeply entwined with our imagination.
The exhibition Cette Mer qui nous entoure [The Sea Around Us] is set in this divide, between invisibility and imagination, between the immensity of natural phenomena and the fragility of our human gaze. First…
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