Sea foam is an old phenomena created by algal

matter, it’s not harmful and it’s often an indication of a

productive ocean ecosystem. Human activities can also

contribute to the formation of sea foam. It’s likely that periods

of bloom where a lot of spume was concentrated appeared in

early ages. In mythologies the sea foam give birth to creatures

such as Aphrodite but also Peitho, Admete, Lanthe, Elektra,

Polydora. The same word is connected to spume and froth;

the salive from crisis, hysteria, effort and anger;

« ideas spume with elemental fury, where thoughts arise

noisily ... where at other times there is a stillness like the deep

silence of the South Sea, » Repetition, Kierkegaard

       The work presented in Xiamen at NAC is based upon legends of the

sea and collected histories in the harbor. The drawings of

people are like quick notifications of stories heard from people I

meet mixed up with old characters on a large paper

wrinkling in space presented at the art center. Covered with the

white sea foam, the drawings disappear and then reappear in

another shape partially erased when it dries during the exhibition.

Partly there are only stains left. Like a white noise of

the sea, covering or silences the load waves. We try to speak, to

understand each other, we almost always fail, we repeat

again and again, spume accumulate in the corners of the mouth. There’s always new histories to be told about sea, always new legends out of sea

foam ready to be reinterpreted and creature to emerge