Dialogues méditerranéens
July - October 2007, Musée de l'Annonciade, Saint-Tropez, France
Discover the exhibitionOn the occasion of the cultural summer 2007, the city of St Tropez wanted to evoke the artistic and cultural creation of Mediterranean countries, in all its forms (art, photos, videos, fashion, music, food ...) through the theme "Mediterranean Dialogue".
For this event, Jean-Michel Othoniel installed, in front of the Musée de l’Annonciade (St tropez, South of France), his Bateau de larmes (The Boat of Tears), created in 2004. The works he began to produce at that time were among the first to take on a political tinge, as if his questioning of death in the perspective of an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier, together with a new openness to the external world, allowed his work to breach his inherent sense of timelessness. The Bateau de larmes has been made from a refugee boat purchased in Miami. By combining the imaginary with the memory of a tragic story, this artwork provides a testimony to this newfound openness.