Nicolas Floc'h

Initium Maris Civis

Initium Maris Civis is the learning chapter of the Initium Maris project. It is a specific project devised for children from ten primary and secondary school classes in the Brittany region in an artistic and scientific investigation process in order to discover the diversity of marine environments, in connection with terrestrial environments. Based on Nicolas Floc'h's artistic practice and notably his photographic work, the pupils start from their mental projection and then discover and explore other views and modes of representation.

This project is based on the discovery of landscape that is usually invisible, a cross between art, science and society. The French National Institute for Ocean Science - Ifremer, the association Cap vers la nature, Artconnexion and Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain, have joined forces to design and run this educational project.

Initium Maris Civis is also a tool for raising awareness for all audiences and invites us to question our relationship with the ocean, its productivity but also the representations we have of it.

1/11 © Dugornay Olivier, outside workshop with students, Ifremer, 2021
2/11 © Dugornay Olivier, outside workshop with students, Ifremer, 2021
3/11 © Dugornay Olivier, outside workshop with students, Ifremer, 2021
4/11 © Dugornay Olivier, outside workshop with students, Ifremer, 2021
5/11 © Dugornay Olivier, outside workshop with students, Ifremer, 2021
6/11 © Dugornay Olivier, outside workshop with students, Ifremer, 2021
7/11 Nicolas Floc’h, Paysages productifs, « Initium Maris Civis», site Rebent , Carantec, île Callot, baie de Morlaix, 2019, -3 m, temp. 14 °C
8/11 Nicolas Floc’h, Paysages productifs, « Initium Maris Civis», Molène, 2019, -5 m, temp. 13 °C
9/11 Nicolas Floc’h, Paysages productifs, « Initium Maris Civis», Plouha, Rock le Pommier, 2019, -8 m, temp. 12 °C
10/11 Nicolas Floc’h, Paysages productifs, « Initium Maris Civis», Aber-Vrac’h, 2019, -4 m, temp. 14 °C
11/11 Nicolas Floc’h, Paysages productifs, « Initium Maris Civis», Ouessant, Baie de Lampaul, -10 m, 2016

Partners: FEDER Bretagne, Fondation de France within the framework of the programme "Les futurs du littoral et de la mer", Ifremer, LOG - ULCO, Museum national d'histoire naturelle - station marine de Concarneau, Passerelle - Centre d'art contemporain Brest and association Cap vers la nature