© Collectif A8
This work addresses the impact of human beings on nature and the harmful consequences that follow. It stages an open window onto the aquatic world : a space where no act of protection has ever been carried out. An absence that slowly condemns these places and the flora and fauna that inhabit them. The work seeks to raise public awareness of the human footprint in the natural environment : a trace that can lead to the gradual destruction of that environment without anyone even noticing.
The materials chosen carry this message. Fishing nets suspended from the ceiling evoke destructive fishing practices and an excessive human presence. These nets hold fish made from papier mâché using local newspapers: a grounding in the local territory through which to speak of the flora and fauna that belong to it. The fish hang from fishing lines that pass through their backs like so many hooks. Across the floor spreads silt that creeps progressively up the walls: like quicksand where the harder one tries to escape the deeper one sinks. Resting on this silt are salvaged objects that reveal an invisible degradation of the water.
Projet réalisé dans le cadre
d’un partenariat avec
l’UPJV Amiens