Alice Pallot is part of 212 Photography Istanbul at the Institut Français de Turquie.
Translating scientific data into visual language, Alice Pallot transforms ecological crisis into aesthetic confrontation. Algues Maudites (Cursed Algae) transposes the toxic green algae invasion spreading along Brittany's coasts into a three-part photographic narrative, realized in collaboration with CNRS Occitanie Ouest, Villa Perochon, the European Space Agency, and Leica. The Paris-based artist, known for her interdisciplinary practice blurring art-science boundaries, makes visible the algae bloom triggered by industrial agriculture's nitrate runoff and climate change—a toxic blanket suffocating ecosystems and threatening public health.
Pallot's lens goes beyond documentation, using algae, plastic waste, and pollution as visual filters to expand photography's mediatic boundaries. The coastline's morbid stillness, surreal green tones, and ghostly landscapes appear as portraits of the present, not dystopian future. As Pallot states: "These algae are just a symptom; the real disease is our unbalanced relationship with nature." The exhibition conveys ecological crisis urgency through poetic language without aestheticizing it, serving as both warning and witness while questioning our role in landscape deterioration.
