Béatrice Lartigue

Béatrice Lartigue is a french visual artist based in Toulouse. She is co-founder of the interdisciplinary collective Lab212. Since 2008, Béatrice Lartigue has been working on projects at the intersection of art, science and technology. Her work explores the materialisation of invisible physical events, by immersing visitors in a space whose rules are partly written and partly in the making. A critical perspective on the utilisation of technology in a fragile environmental context guides her practice.

Her works were exhibited at the Barbican Centre (London), the Arsenal of Venice, the Miraikan Museum (Tokyo), le Centre Pompidou (Paris), la Gaîté Lyrique (Paris), the DMuseum (Seoul), the Times Art Museum (Beijing), Photo Elysée (Lausanne).

Béatrice Lartigue has won several international awards, including from the Sundance Film Festival (New Frontier Selection: Notes on Blindness), the Lumen Prize (Performance Award: Portée/).

The Deluge, 2024 - corpus of 14 images (JPG, 8192x8192 px) There is not a single legend of the flood; there is a collection of different traditions.

Flood narratives are virtually universal, the primary reason being that floods are the most universal of geological catastrophes. The deluge erases the boundaries that define the world, between land and water, mountains and valleys.

This piece continues the endeavour initiated with The Big Smoke (2023), which explored the impact of climate change on our daily environment, and the way in which the acceleration of technologies such as generative AI is altering the perception of our reality.

Today, the deluge is no longer a myth but a climatic reality. Unlike myths where the flood is singular, the climate crisis is shaping up as a series of increasingly frequent extreme events. Thus, the deluge is no longer a tale of the past but a challenge of the present and the future.