Going back in time, this is what researchers do when they embark on oceanographic ships for several weeks and take sediment cores several thousand metres deep to understand climate change.
For the poet who accompanies them and shares their daily life, it is also an initiatory journey and a philosophical reflection on the disorders of the World.
The Nantes museum hosts an exhibition of images captured during these expeditions, co-produced between artist and scientist researchers.
The exhibition consists of images captured during several paleoclimatology sea campaigns in both poles (Acclimate, Rockall-Mingulay and STEP, 2016).
The scientific challenge of accessing climate archives and data to model the conditions of past climates coincides with our concerns about current disturbances. Artists and embedded scientists cross their eyes around the same research topic and join forces to render a robust and sensitive content.
This ensemble invites to travel and the imagination while questioning the links that exist between our intimate landscapes and the disorders of the World.
For this exhibition, the LPG (Laboratory of Planetology and Geosciences) was associated with the scientific research and artistic creation approach Measuring the World’s Size (The (Theatre of) Grain, CEARC-UVSQ and the Marine Sciences for Society Network) with elements illustrating their work.