From October 19th, 2024
to March 9th, 2025
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
in Les Sables d'Olonne
Paradise exists. Tenuous, fragile, unique in the universe, until proven otherwise. This phenomenon was born from the confrontation of the energy of a star, the Sun, with the telluric forces of our planet. Some scientists call it the Critical Zone. It was while living in the Polynesian islands of the Pacific that I recently became aware of the extreme thinness and great vulnerability of this tiny habitable space on the surface of the Earth that has been hosting the evolution of the living things to which we belong for billions of years and to which we promise imminent extinction
I had never before looked at our reality from this angle. I thought of the ocean as a gigantic abyssal skylight and not a puddle! I embraced the atmosphere as an infinite space close to the stars and not reduced to a few short kilometers. Inspired by this wonderful explosion of biodiversity Land and sea, my paintings are so many visions. All the works presented here form a tribute to the earthly paradise.
Titouan Lamazou, Tahiti 2024
