La solidarité des destins

End-of-residency exhibition from 25 March to 6 April 2026
Opening : 24 March. Press preview : 26 March.

Take a look at the schedule prepared by the Parlement de la Mer for Escale à Sète event (in French)!

Louisa Marajo (1987, Martinique) creates installations, sculptures, and photographic montages that evoke the complexity of the ecological, historical, and social chaos affecting her birthplace: Martinique, a postcolonial society marked by hurricanes, soil pollution, and sargassum (invasive algae that accumulate along the coasts). At the heart of her work is the sea—a liquid element of metamorphosis and a vessel of memory.
Since 2018, she has been exploring the disaster that the proliferation of sargassum represents, particularly in the Caribbean Sea. The artist works with this blight, viewing it as a new narrative element to develop in dialogue with the ocean.
How can the sea be materialised in a time of climate disruption? Her installations are increasingly accompanied by poetic texts that she writes as another way to travel in her imagination.

For the exhibition La solidarité des destins (The Solidarity of Destinies), Louisa Marajo met with people from the world of professional fishing. She had the opportunity to board trawlers and small-scale fishing boats, live at the pace of a port, and experience the everyday life of these men and women whose entire existence is devoted to fishing.
Following this period of immersion, Louisa Marajo produced a new short film, as well as images, texts, and a series of sculptures and objects, which she presents in an immersive scenography specifically conceived for one of the rooms at the Crac.

Between a science-fiction banquet, dreamlike auction, and deep-sea atmosphere, Louisa Marajo plunges visitors into the dream realm. As she herself writes of her short film: “A waking dream, an initiatory journey, this film is a tribute to our unique relationship with the beloved sea-nature to which we owe everything, a tribute to the passion for fishing—that world currently threatened by our changing times. What path can we take together, to avoid becoming uprooted and attempt to stay connected and bound to that primordial, nourishing, essential element, that fragment of ourselves which the sea embodies, an irreplaceable magical space (…)? What path will we take together?”

The title of the exhibition, La solidarité des destins (The Solidarity of Destinies) recalls the urgent need to avoid separating the different regimes of the living, which are radically and deeply connected.