Juliette-Andréa Elie
Musée de l’Étang de Thau
Ce que les nacres tissent
france
Winner of the 2025 Ronan Guillou residence, Juliette-Andréa Elie proposes to focus on a fragile and fundamental marine organism: the Great Mother-of-Pearl (Pinna nobilis), an endangered species whose last sanctuary is in the Etang de Thau.
By filtering up to six liters of water per hour, it plays a key role in preserving biodiversity. Mother-of-pearl is a bioindicator of seabed and water quality along the Mediterranean coast.
The artist will seek to bear witness to the scientific and militant actions taken to preserve it, while exploring how its adaptive capacities resonate with our own survival issues.
Ronan Guillou Grant 2025 – Work in progress
ABOUT
Juliette-Andréa Elie was born in Auvergne, France, in 1985. She is a graduate of the E.S.B.A.N.M in Nantes (DNSEP 2010) and Concordia University in Montreal.
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Her preoccupations center on the representation of landscape in the age of the Anthropocene, on the subterranean links that each of us maintains with our direct or fantasized environment, and on other members of the Living. Photography, drawing, painting, video and voice are all tools she uses, with a marked interest in the unique work, as opposed to the overabundance of reproducible objects.