On the Road | a ppr oc he art fair 2026

MANON LANJOUÈRE : MÉMOIRE SAUVÉE DE L’EAU

November 12-15th, 2026

Le Molière – 40 rue de Richelieu. 75001 Paris. France

On the occasion of the 10th edition of a ppr oc he, a fair dedicated to the experimental use of images, the Galerie du Jour agnès b. presents the work of Manon Lanjouère and her project Memories Rescued from Underwater.

Manon Lanjouère opens a new oceanic chapter in her work and campaigns here for recognition of industrial fishing’s responsibility for the collapse of benthic biodiversity (species living on the ocean floor).

This dystopian tale captures the full violence of deep-sea dredging, which acts like immense ploughing, repeatedly churning and stirring up the sandy or muddy layers. The species torn up, broken, crushed or discarded would find their final resting place beneath a layer of sediment, escaping immediate decomposition. Thus, far from human eyes, in the dark depths of the oceans, molecular transformations would take place over the centuries.

With these new rocks, slightly engraved and enhanced by the printing process, the photograph finds in the fossil an unexpected counterpart where the physical and chemical process is infinitely faster. It thus takes on the consoling function of ‘fixing’ and ‘preserving’ time in a world where so much is falling apart.