Nicolas FLOC'H

Born in 1970 in Rennes, France. Lives and works in Paris.

In collaboration with Galerie Maubert, Paris.

Photographer and multidisciplinary visual artist, Nicolas Floc’h (born in 1970, in Rennes) seeks to create socially engaged work that can create awareness around social, environmental, and economic issues. His installations, photographs, films, sculptures and performances question a period of transition in which flow, disappearance and regeneration play an essential role.

Since 2010, a work focused on the representation of habitats and the underwater environment has led to a documentary photographic production related to the global changes and the definition of the concept of underwater landscape: black and white photographs (shot in natural light and printed with carbon) around seascapes devoid of exoticism and not anthropocentric. And Water colors replaying the monochromatic painting while testifying the health of the oceans. From long-term projects, nourished by experiences, scientific researches and encounters, open artworks are born, rooted in reality, where evolutionary processes take the first place.

Nicolas Floc’h’s artworks have been regularly exhibited in France and abroad, in particular at the SMAK (Gent), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), MAC/VAL (Vitry-sur-Seine), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), FRAC Bretagne (Rennes), FRAC PACA (Marseille), MALI (Lima, Peru), Matucana 100 (Santiago, Chile)… A monograph Glaz published during the eponymous exhibition at FRAC Bretagne, released in 2018 by “Roma Publications”, Amsterdam. His works are part of the photographic collections of the CNAP, the Fond Municipal de la Ville de Paris, the Frac Bretagne, the FRAC PACA, the MAC/VAL, the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, the FRAC Lorraine, the FRAC Grand-Large-Hauts-de-France and the MALI (Lima, Pérou).

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, which results in an eponymous publication by Roma. In 2020, he has a solo exhibition at FRAC PACA 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 2021/2022, he exhibited Initium Maris at the Thalie Foundation (Brussels), at the Capucins (Brest), at the Vannes photo festival, and at the GwinZegal art center (Guingamp). An expedition to the deep sea led by Ifremer resulted in a publication by Roma, Deep Sea, with a text by Michel Poivert.

In 2022, Nicolas Floc'h is a resident of Villa Albertine for its opening.

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Artist website

=> Download the monograph of Nicolas Floc'h: Glaz, Roma publications, 2018.

=> Dowload the exhibition catalogues of Nicolas Floc'h's series:

Productive Structures : Artificial Reefs (2011 - 2017)

Productive Seascapes: Initium Maris (2015/2018/2021) • The Color of Water (2016 - 2021) • Kuroshio (2017) • Bulles (2019) • Invisible (2018 - 2020) • Invisible/Parallèle – Port-Cros (2020) • Invisible/Parallèle – Îles de Lérins (2021) • Initium Maris – Deep sea (2021)

=> Listen to Nicolas Floc'h, the photographer of the color of water and underwater depths.