The Impossibility of the Sea
2024
Installation, ultramarine acrylic paint on sheet and gold leaf, ultramarine paintings on canvas and Rosaspina paper, film stills printed on Japanese paper, collages on postcards, Polaroids, vernacular photographs, sand, seashells, and sheet, 2:20 video projected on wall
Sur l’invitation de la galerie Reactor Gallery, l’artiste Emmanuelle Michaux a reactivé son installation L’Impossibilité de la mer.
At the invitation of Reactor Gallery, artist Emmanuelle Michaux reactivated her installation The Impossibility of the Sea.
Prints on Japanese paper, Polaroids adorned with gold leaf, collages on postcards, paintings on canvas and fabric, and vernacular photographs intersect in endless variations of scale and representations of the sea.
Facing the sea — a vast block of eternity — our lives are but fleeting moments, and every attempt to depict it remains in vain.