To what extent does water constitute an archetypal element, producing moral values and prone to ambivalence? Myths abound with magical fountains, fertile rivers or deadly abysses. Water lends itself to rites of lustration or regenerative baptismal immersion. Circumnavigation has given rise to epic tales of conquest or exploration, populated by monsters and delights. The specificity of this volume is the knotting together of the iconic and the verbal, by renewing our trust in the exemplary regime of art, most capable of apprehending the unpredictable, the ephemeral, and the continuous. Against the backdrop of existential shipwrecks, water wars, the proliferation of microplastics, the scoriae of an unbridled productivity, a work like this one can raise awareness about the right to water, its beneficial virtues, and its inexhaustible imaginary.
14 Nouvelles Vagues
Images of Time in the Works of Godard and Rohmer
âKathleen Maxymuk
Part 5: Installations
15 Shipwreck with Spectator
Claudio Parmiggianiâs Oeuvre as a Journey through Time, Space and Ruins
âVega Tescari
16 Life Is a River in a Constant State of Flux
Isabelle Kriegâs Curriculum (2004/2008)
âFabiana Senkpiel
17 Drip Drip Drip Intercede
The Leaky Thresholds of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
âAshley Mason
Index
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