Exposition : Wrac’h sens dessus dessous

We hope to see many of you come and discover the world of two artists in residence at Le Phare this summer: Julie El Mir & Franck Daouben.

Julie El Mir
When it comes to drawing, it’s first and foremost about touching the paper, making contact. Touch unites, connects and allows us to feel; it establishes a sensory relationship. A simple gesture, yet one rich in meaning.
The power of the ocean, the capricious weather, the ebb and flow of the waves, the mass of water rising and falling, and the overwhelming scale of this environment. All around the lighthouse, a graphic, shifting swell; a diffuse undulation of lines that Julie El Mir attempts to transpose onto paper. It is yet another way of making visible, re-enacting, destabilising and freezing reality and the figures that inhabit it in moments of uncertainty, by establishing contact through drawing and its hidden geographies.
For her, drawing is a space of infinite possibilities thanks to graphic representation; it is both a place for representing reality and one for imaginary perception.
A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges and now a qualified teacher of Visual Arts, Julie El Mir develops her personal artistic practice alongside her teaching career.
Her artistic approach is intrinsically linked to the figure of the ‘traveller-migrant’; it is fuelled by journeys, the spaces she traverses and the encounters she has along the way. Her work does not arise from stillness, but from physical movement: it is in the journey through territories with strong identities that her drawings draw their narrative substance.

Franck Daouben
This exhibition on Île Wrac’h invites visitors to immerse themselves in the waters surrounding the islet. Each photograph bears witness to the fragile beauty of this ecosystem and the
diversity of life that inhabits our coasts.
Beyond their aesthetic appeal, these images invite us to take a fresh look at the natural marine heritage that surrounds us. They remind us that, beneath the surface, there exists a fascinating world whose preservation is everyone’s responsibility.
Blending art, discovery and awareness-raising, Franck Daouben offers us a poetic immersion into the heart of Brittany’s underwater landscapes.
A lifelong lover of the sea, Franck Daouben explores the seabed off the northern coast of Finistère with patience and wonder. Through his lens, he reveals a world often invisible to those on land: forests of kelp, plays of light, encounters with marine life and underwater landscapes of unsuspected richness.

Wrac’h Island is accessible on foot from Saint-Cava beach, three hours before and three hours after low tide.