Coloquio Christine Laquet

Описание: Being an Artist-at-Sea during the expedition "A Tale of 2 Submarine Canyons"

During the expedition “A Tale of Two Submarine Canyons” with the
Schmidt Ocean Institute, I created a series of wave-made paintings —
ink moving on stone paper, guided by the sea’s own gesture. Using
sediments collected by the ROV, I composed a collage merging matter
from the deep with the seafloor maps as they were drawn in real time.
My live performance, “I glow, therefore I vanish”, unfolded during one
of the ROV dives and was streamed online. I created an immersive piece
using projections on seawater and drawings on dissolving paper —
exploring how light, language, and deep-sea life echo one another in a
fragile choreography of disappearance and transformation, inspired by
bioluminescence.
This body of work continues in a forthcoming film — a speculative
fiction set in the abyss, where human and non-human beings confront
the intertwined questions of extraction, coexistence, and shared
vulnerability in the deep.


Christine Laquet is a French visual artist whose practice unfolds at
the intersection of environmental inquiry, speculative thinking, and
embodied experience. Her long-term research has explored meteorites
carrying traces of the origins of life, cyanobacteria that later gave
rise to it, or the return of the wolf as a contested figure of fear
and resilience. More recently, her trajectory has turned toward the
ocean, where micro- and macro-organisms — from plankton to algae —
invite her to embrace symbiosis as both a biological necessity and a
philosophical stance. Working across installation, performance, film,
and painting, Laquet creates immersive environments that reorient
perception, decenter the human gaze, and open new ways of sensing and
coexisting with the living. She has exhibited internationally in
institutions such as the Contemporary Art Museum A. Magalhães
(Brazil), the PyeongChang Biennale (Korea), Zamek Culture Center
(Poland), BUG Gallery (Thailand), and more recently at NAC Xiamen
(China). Her work has also been shown in France and abroad — from New
York to Bangkok, Innsbruck, Poznań, São Paulo, Seoul, or Aarhus — and
is represented in both private and public collections, including the
FNAC (Paris) and FRAC Pays de la Loire. A graduate of the École
Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and ECAL Lausanne, she has
received numerous grants and residencies, among them the Schmidt Ocean
Institute’s “Artist at Sea”, ARoS Aarhus, Pioneer Works New York, and
ADAGP research grants. At a time of ecological urgency, her practice
resonates as a call to attunement, empathy, and transformation.