Nicolas Floc'h
Fleuves-Océan, Mississippi Watershed
On view March 6 - September 5, 2027
Nicholas Floc'h (French, b. 1970), Mississippi River, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Pigmented ink print, 2022. Promised gift to the New Orleans Museum of Art.
French photographer and visual artist Nicolas Floc’h’s Fleuves-Océan project traces the movement of water across our planet, exploring its flow through varied habitats and representing the ways we are all connected by water cycles and systems. This exhibition pairs vibrant monochromatic photographs of the color of water made under the surface with dramatic black-and-white landscape photographs made along the banks of the Mississippi and its tributaries across the country. A monumental arrangement of Floc’h’s “water color” photographs constitutes a central element of the exhibition. Floc’h made each image by lowering the camera underwater to the same prescribed depths, repeating the process at different locations in the Mississippi and its source waters.
Nicolas Floc’h documented the entire span of the Mississippi during a 2022 artist residency in the United States with Villa Albertine in collaboration with the Camargo Foundation and Artconnexion. This exhibition is organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art and curated by Brian Piper, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints and Drawings.
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This exhibition is organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art and curated by Brian Piper, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints and Drawings.