Nicolas Floc'h
Nicolas Floc’h
Born 1970 (FR).
Lives and works in Paris.
Photographer and visual artist, born in 1970 in Rennes. Nicolas Floc’h ‘s installations, photographs, films, sculptures and performances question a period of transition in which flow, disappearance and regeneration play an essential role. Over the past ten years, a work focused on the representation of underwater habitats and environments has led to a documentary photographic production linked to global change and to the definition of the concept of underwater landscape: black-and-white photographs (taken in natural light and carbon printed) depicting sea landscapes that are devoid of exoticism and non-anthropocentric. And "watercolors" that re-enact monochrome painting while documenting the oceans' health.
Long-term projects, fueled by experiments, scientific researches and encounters, result in open-ended works rooted in reality, where evolutionary processes are the main theme.
Nicolas Floc’h’s artworks have been regularly exhibited in France and abroad, including at the MAAT (Lisbon), SMAK (Gent), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Les Rencontres d’Arles, MAC/VAL (Vitry-sur-Seine), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), MALI (Lima, Peru), Matucana 100 (Santiago, Chile), Fondation Thalie (Bruxelles), Forum – Fondation d'entreprise Hermès (Tokyo)… Nicolas Floc’h is the winner of the national photographic commission “Flux, a society in motion” 2018 and the 2019 public art commission for Invisible with the Calanques National Park, in partnership with the Camargo Foundation. In 2020, he presented a three solo show at the FRAC Sud, the Fondation Carmignac and the Villa Noailles as part of Manifesta 13. He is also developing a long-term project around the color of water, looking at oceans and rivers from all over the world. In 2022, Nicolas Floc'h is a resident of Villa Albertine for its opening.
Several monographs have been dedicated to his work, including: Glaz, published as part of the eponymous exhibition at FRAC Bretagne (2018), Invisible
(2020), Deep Sea, on the occasion of an Ifremer expedition to the ocean depths (2020, text by Michel Poivert), Invisible Parallèle
(2022), Initium Maris
(2023), La couleur de l'eau -Tage
(2024)...
His works are part of the collections of the CNAP, the MAC/VAL, the Fonds d'art contemporain – Paris Collections, the Frac Bretagne, the FRAC Sud, the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, the FRAC Lorraine, the FRAC Grand Large and the MALI (Lima, Peru).