2024

Installation, video projection and sound, three-channel loop, 21 minutes

Three screens, gray fabric 3x3.6m, metal and wood

 

Dérive Littorale is a video installation exploring the pebbles of Le Havre and the Alabaster Coast. This three-screen loop examines their relationship to time, their history, their collection, and their materiality.

This work aims to consider the pebble as a “total social fact”: a complex and multidimensional entity evoking historical, economic, cultural, technological, sociological and ecological realities.

This work weaves together several temporalities and issues: the immense scale of mineral time, passing through flint tools, to the pebble gatherers, ending with questions about the future of the coastline in the Anthropocene.

By mixing archival photographs, digital inlays, with shots of landscapes and cliffs, or even gestures of picking up and handling pebbles, I seek to create a sedimented and open narrative, where the impressions and memories of the visitor mingle with voices and images.

 

Installation views: Photo credits Michèle Gottstein, 2025