Take beauty as the starting point. It can be that of a glacier, an ocean or a coastline... because beauty overwhelms us. In doing so, it also moves us to the heart of Gaia’s great metamorphoses.

The melting of glaciers due to global warming generates a rise in ocean levels: + 10 cm from 1993-2020. The increase is verified for all French territories: + 3.0 mm/year in Brest from 1980 to 2004, +2.9 mm from 1950 to 2010 in French Polynesia, + 2.6 mm for Marseille from 1980 to 2012. Coastal erosion, on the other hand, is accelerating and is causing the coastline to recede inland. In France, 20% of the coastline is declining, making it one of the most affected European countries.

The exhibition 'Submersions & Displacements', from January 15 to February 15, 2026 at L'Impasse, 4 cité griset Paris 11ème, presents three of them, one leading to the other:

• global warming is generating a melting of glaciers, evoked in the series 'Sacred mountains, eternal snows?' where each work celebrates one of the ways of saying snow in Inuit,
• the melting of glaciers causes a rise in ocean levels, presented in the series 'The disappearance of sand' where islands and beaches disappear into the deep blue,
• the rise in ocean levels causes the displacement of the coastline, symbolized by the sand dunes of the series 'Symbiotic Architecture'.

The artist through a poetic journey intends to reveal the interdependence of the transformations at work.