There are many ways to view art, most of them above sea level. But this is not the case on the Mediterranean island of Porquerolles, France.\u00a0\nAt Villa Carmignac, an aptly titled new exhibition \u2018The Imaginary Sea\u2019 (La Mer Imaginaire) is being staged indoors, outdoors and underwater, transforming the...
At Fondation Carmignac on the island of Porquerolles, new sub-aquatic group show ‘The Imaginary Sea’ frames the sea as a source of inspiration, imagination, longing and lossCo-production Fondation Carmignac, Bianca Bondi and Mor Charpentier, Paris ADAGP, Paris, 2021. Photography: Marc Domage
There are many ways to view art, most of them above sea level. But this is not the case on the Mediterranean island of Porquerolles, France. At Villa Carmignac, an aptly titled new exhibition ‘The Imaginary Sea’ is being staged indoors, outdoors and underwater, transforming the foundation’s galleries into a sub-aquatic museum that plunges viewers into the bond between humans and the underwater world.
Humanity’s relationship with the sea is complex: a source of fear, exploitation, eco-anxiety, peril and mystery. With its fusion of modern and contemporary art and site-specific installations, ‘The Imaginary Sea’ frames the marine world as a precious and evocative resource, swarming with known and unknown lives; a place of vastness, inconceivable depth, unexpected things, and also an eco-system of acute fragility. Courtesy the artist © ADAGP, Paris, 2021 – Fondation Carmignac.
This exhibition was the brainchild of LA-based curator Chris Sharp, co-founder of the Lulu experimental art space that is destined to become a satellite of the X Museum in Beijing. ‘The Imaginary Sea’ was inspired both by the aquarium-esque effect of the Villa Carmignac’s architecture – its spaces submerged under the building’s expansive water ceiling – and by iconic works from its collection, including Bruce Nauman’s kinetic fountain with a hundred bronze fish.
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