“ Save the Mermaids ”, the new exhibition at the Musée Mer Marine

Exposition / Écologie / musée

20 May - 12 October

Designed with Maud Le Car, three-time French surfing champion and artist committed to protecting the marine environment, this exhibition makes the mermaid the emblem of the Ocean!

An exhibition designed with a three-time French surfing champion

Designed with Maud Le Car, three-time French surfing champion and an artist committed to protecting the marine environment through her association Save La Mermaid, this exhibition makes the mermaid the emblem of the ocean's beauty!

The mermaid, spokesperson for this universe

A marvellous enchantress of the underwater depths, the figure of the mermaid inspires the artists and surfers who have contributed to this event. Embodying the human being living like a fish in water, the mermaid is an image with which they identify, due to their special relationship with the marine element.

A new exhibition at the Musée Mer Marine

Whether in drawings, bas-reliefs, painted surfboards, vintage Barbies transformed into works of art or a video of a dance performance by Vanessa Feuillatte, principal dancer at the Bordeaux Opera, the mermaid sails through the exhibition, unfurling fins and colorful hair with grace and melancholy, the perfect embodiment of the splendor and fragility of the marine world. Her distress, materialized by the presence of plastic granules aptly dubbed “mermaid tears”, is echoed in the salvaged materials on works made from collected garbage, these microbeads being omnipresent on French beaches as a result of veritable “white tides”.

Many inspirations

Come and discover how the surfing world and a commitment to the ocean are closely linked, and how this translates into art: Maud Le Car's painted boards rub shoulders with a mythical longboard by Laird Hamilton supplied by Oxbow; molded and painted busts of famous surfers and sailors, such as Carissa Moore and Marie Tabarly, celebrate life alongside Flore Sigrist's spirited canvases; Claire Pasquier's moiré views, with their Californian accents, are complemented by the public's participatory collage works, made from garbage collected on the beach; Jérôme Toulouse's pure, exotic compositions converse with the cellular portraits of surfing champions. ne.s by Laurence Graffensttaden, with contributions from Joan Duru, Kauli Vaast, Kyllian Guerin, Maud Le Car and Jorgann Couzinet...

Practical info

• Dates : April 24 to October 12
• Times: 1pm > 7pm (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday) & 10:30am > 7pm (Saturday, Sunday)
• Location : Musée Mer Marine, Bordeaux