Tara Méditerranée

March 8, 2022

François Aurat

A sailor and artist “My best experience on board Tara remains the 6-month circumnavigation of the Arctic Ocean (Tara Polar Circle) and the crossing of the Northwest and Northeast Passages with indescribable landscapes and a spectacular team.” François Aurat, deck officer aboard the schooner, fuels his passion for photography along Tara’s course across the ocean. His photographs reflect

Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques

A residence built around plastics Artist-in-residence from St Tropez (France) to Barcelona (Spain) “The proximity and conversations with Tara’s crew members, both sailors and scientists, made me understand more clearly the great fragility of the marine ecosystem and the alarming pollution in the Mediterranean. This sea is a political space that physically separates the African and

Katia Kameli

Hybrid cultures Katia will board Tara for the Algiers-Marseille crossing. Her position is that of hybridity, the “Third Space” which makes possible the emergence of other visions, directions and forms. This third space disrupts the stories that comprise it and puts them in a critical state. Therefore, it allows for rewriting and round trips between “History” and

December 16, 2021

Emmanuel Régent

In black and white  Multidisciplinary artist Emmanuel Régent uses both classic techniques and cutting edge technological protocols. At the same time figurative, minimalist and  deliberately lacunar, his drawings are done with a black felt-tip pen. Their   movement and rendering evoke the crackling noise of digital pixels. The Nebula  paintings are made up of different

Lola Reboud

« The Colour of the Ocean » The encounter between an individual in relation to the place where she lives and  her relationship to the climate are the starting points of Lola’s work. By mixing  photographic wandering with a concern for documentary precision, at the edge of  current events, she tells stories where geography is

December 9, 2021

Yoann Lelong

Translate the infinitesimal into a totality “Lors de la résidence sur Tara des Embiez à Antibes, j’ai perçu la répétition des « During the residency aboard Tara, from Embiez to Antibes, I saw the repetition of the crew’s gestures as a gradual process aimed at translating the infinitesimal into a totality. Indeed, the days were punctuated

October 19, 2021

Lorraine Féline

“During the shooting, between Cala Gonone (Sardinia) and Athens (Greece), I filmed every day the people who worked on board, on all three levels of the boat. Outside, on the deck, with the sea as a landscape. Inside, in the living areas, and one level below, in the engine room. Thus, I captured the gestures