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Being an Artist-at-Sea during the expedition “A tale of 2 submarine canyons”

Christine Laquet

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.