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“…Ephemeral Coast is a curatorial research project that seeks to investigate our difficult relationship to the coast as a threshold and frontline to climate change and considers the possibilities of understanding art in relation to what may be described as an unparalleled event. …”

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“…Au cours de l'histoire, Melancholia s'est déjà présen­tée comme figure du destin mais, dans les mises en scène de l'absence auxquelles l'art nous a accoutumés, la mélancolie est peut-être aujourd'hui, de manière plus spécifique encore, la figure qui permet de saisir la problématique du déclin, à travers toutes les représentations d'un monde désinvesti, dans lequel le travail du deuil - de la culture, de la bonté, de la beauté.... - ne semble plus devoir trouver une fin…”