Osmosis

Noémie Baumann invites us into a sensory experience where perception shifts, where our gaze becomes unsettled and transformed. Immersed in water, she captures the rippling surface of the Mediterranean from above and freediving from below.

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Her circular photographs, displayed horizontally, evoke the waterline: that fragile boundary between sky and sea. Their varying heights symbolically reflect the rising sea levels linked to climate change, a slow yet inevitable elevation made tangible by the exhibition's scenography. By looking up, viewers enter a space where water becomes sky. This reversal of perspective continues with underwater images placed on round plinths, inviting us to lean and dive in.

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Like marine goddesses, her monumental photosculptures Guardians of the Shore are composed of fragments from these surface images. Each column weaves together two viewpoints, sealing the union of air and water. The number seven, rich in symbolism, embodies for her a balance between visible and invisible worlds.

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The exhibition unfolds as a poetic encounter between art and ecology, where land and sea intertwine. It invites a renewed contemplation of the marine world: a realm as powerful as it is fragile, calling for reverence as much as protection.

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Through every image, every sculpture, every breath of water, Noémie seeks to convey this deep connection with the sea, mirror of our own existence.