Studio Lemercier

The exhibition emerges from the artist’s March 2026 crossing of the Atlantic Ocean aboard a sailing vessel – traveling from France to New York without flying. First conceived in 2024 as a response to the environmental impact of air travel, the journey became an opportunity to produce new work within the conditions of the open ocean itself.

The voyage was approached as a suspension – a parenthesis in time – and an encounter with the Sublime. Over two weeks, perception slowed into sustained observation. The resulting works are shaped by a sense of smallness in the face of vastness – a confrontation with immensity and elemental forces, thousands of kilometers from any sign of human presence.

Presented as pen plots and animated videos, the works translate fifteen days at sea into form. Without landmarks or human reference points, the works respond to the visceral experience of wind, swelling waves, and shifting light.