Algues maudites, Red Bloom, an exhibition by Alice Pallot

In this project, Alice Pallot opens a new exploratory chapter on the consequences of climate change, which the artist parallels with Earth Observation images from ESA. These new images, associated with her previous research work, interact with ESA images of the ocean, revealing phytoplankton blooms invisible to the naked eye.

Europe is the world leader in Earth Observation, thanks to a constellation of state-of-the-art satellites. This activity is essential for understanding and monitoring environmental problems and climate change, and for achieving sustainable development goals.

As part of her artistic research, Alice Pallot pushes the medium to its limits by cultivating harmful algae on her prints. This process, initiated at Villa Perochon, allows us to experience a toxicity that is not visible in the natural environment, and which imprints itself on the photographic print after 3 weeks of incubation.

Imbued with a science-fictional imagination, her images denounce invisible environmental issues through poetic experiments with a strong aesthetic charge. The photographer creates an immersive experience of the polluted natural world: an inventory of the faded beauty of a world deteriorated by the Anthropocene era.