Published on October 4, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. / Modified on October 4, 2024 at 6:45 p.m.
Remember the sea. Who is it? What does she tell us? What does she show us about herself? For a long time, humanity feared the liquid element. She built dikes, ramparts, installed lighthouses, she sailed along the coasts, embarking late on long crossings. The sea was an expanse, flat although agitated, bounded without being so by the horizon. And we had to wait until the beginning of the 19th century for our outlook to change.
Our encounter with the sea in all its dimensions only really began around 1800, recalls “Thalassa! Thalassa!», the exhibition which has just opened at the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne (MCBA). It shows that the full presence of the sea, with its beaches, its depths, its chasms and its creatures, is still very young – a little more than two centuries old – in our representations and our consciences as earthlings.
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