Visual arts
May 23, 2024
Laure Winants
Seascapes Project Measuring, mapping, taking samples along the coasts, revealing invisible elements on the photographic film or under the microscope lens, so many processes that allow to translate a silent reality of which humans are at the origin. The scientist dives into the infinitesimal world of particles and life, studies marine pollution, and shares the
April 16, 2024
François Olislæger
His project By boarding Tara, I suggest making sketchbooks, in the tradition of surveyors like Bonpland or Humboldt, version 2024. It will be a question of noting, drawing, telling through observation sketches, diagrams, comic strips, my sensations, experiences, encounters and scientific information collected during the trip. What better way to meet others than putting yourself
April 10, 2024
Arianna Pace
Deepth Project ‘Going deep’ means thoroughly investigating something in order to understand its unfolding nature, by clarifying the obscure and confusing aspects and eliminating false appearances. When the water is murky, we are unable to see the seafloor, so we are denied the most extreme part of the sea, the most intimate part, perhaps its
January 11, 2024
Enrique Ramírez
My time, your time, other times Project On April 6, 1922, in Paris, the physicist Albert Einstein and the philosopher Henri Bergson publicly debate the concept of time. The sea has no time, that is to say, we don’t see its time in the aging of the landscape, but in its depths and in what
September 7, 2023
Renata Padowan
Water-Air interface Through my work I create poetic channels of communication, bringing light to issues related to the devastation of ecosystems and their socio-cultural consequences. Since 2012 I’ve been traveling regularly to the Amazonas region, learning from local people and researching about land occupation, deforestation and the depletion of local rivers. I’ve done works related
June 8, 2023
Robertina Šebjanič
Echoes of the Abyss Toxic Legacies of Oceanic Ecologies “During my stay aboard the Tara, I plan to delve into a new thread in my art research practice by addressing the issue of discarded and abandoned weapons on the ocean seabed. This often overlooked issue is essential, as it addresses toxic pollution, making it a
August 22, 2022
Leslie Moquin
Not yet night. Aboard Tara, I went in search of the Green Ray: a physical phenomenon sometimes considered chimerical or even mystical. It manifests as a green flash radiating across the horizon in the first seconds of sunrise or the last moments of sunset. The fierce flash did not show itself when I boarded, or