Exhibition: Where the Sea Slept

What if Sumène Artense had once been an archipelago?
This is the whimsical, poetic but rigorously documented hypothesis developed by the Solax collective. In residence in the Sumène Artense territory in 2025, Judith Chomel, a micro-archives analyst, and Marine Delcroix, a photographer of lost things, conducted an investigation.
Their mission? To uncover traces of a forgotten maritime past: silhouettes of shipwrecks, fragments of registers, pieces of stories.

Drawing from their encounters with the territory and its inhabitants, as well as from local archives and sensitive collections, they compose a body of images and boards that serve as evidence of a vanished marine territory.
Their visual and textual vocabulary, enriched with mists, phantom seaweed, and salty winds, transports the viewer into a world suspended between reality and fiction.